PERSONAL LEAVE DAYS
IN ROAD SERVICE
Article 59
Section II (a) All active employees in road freight service will be entitled to personal leave days on the following graduated basis:
Less than (5) five years
your earn (2) two days per year
(5) five years and less than (10) ten years
you earn (4) four days per year
(10) ten years and less than (15) fifteen years
you earn (7) seven days per year
(15) fifteen years and less than (20) twenty years you earn (10) ten days per year
(20) twenty years or more
you earn (13) thirteen days per year
PERSONAL LEAVE DAYS
IN YARD SERVICE
11 days a year no matter how many years of service
Vacation rosters are established on October 1st of every year
The 420 Galveston vacation roster is as follows:
Galveston boards
6, 7, 9, 16, 17, 18 & 30
Houston boards
7 & 600
A. Effective January 1, 2024, those employees assigned vacation under the jurisdiction of SMART-TD and who have met the requirements in accordance with the National Vacation Agreement of 1949 (with revisions) for 25 years of service to receive five (5) weeks' vacation, will receive one (1) additional week for a total of six (6) weeks.
B. Effective January 1, 2024, those employees assigned vacation under the jurisdiction of SMART-TD will be allowed to select one additional week to "float" as single days (total of up to two weeks) and they are to be approved in the same manner as the present one (1) week of single day vacation. Nothing in this paragraph (B) increases any employee's total vacation entitlement.
All vacations start @ 0600-hours and you get removed from the working boards @ 2201-hours.
with the exception of Houston board 600 vacation starts also @ 0600-hours but you get removed from the board @ 2101-hours
Did you qualify for a vacation this year?
Vacation Qualification
Employees must have a minimum of 244 "inflated" days to qualify for next year's vacation. All miles that are paid for a trip with exception of nontaxable amounts, lump sum payments, and frozen miles are used for vacation calculation. you can find this information on the WFhub, under Time Off then Annual Vacation Scheduling and you’ll see Qualified Days Worked as of 12/16/24 to the right in my case 493 days.
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Working Trips
Each trip worked has a mileage amount. Road service and yard service have different inflation amounts.
If working in yard service - 153 (starts) qualifying days @ 1.6 inflated factor = 244 inflated days.
If working in road service - 183 (starts) qualifying days @ 1.335 inflated factor = 244 inflated days.
Example; a yard start is a 100 mile basic day; the yard inflation factor is 1.6. So, for every yard start 1.6 inflated days towards vacation is earned. [100 miles x 1.6 (yard inflated factor) = 1.6 inflated days]
In road service the basic day is 130 (there are some locals and road switchers that are 100). To calculate the number, divide the miles run by 130, then multiply the number times the road inflation factor of 1.335. Example; a thru freight pool turn runs 220 miles one way. 220 miles * 2 (round trip) = 440 divided by 130 (basic day) = 3.38 * 1.335 (road inflated factor) = 4.5 inflated days for the round trip.
Years Of Service
1 yr. = 7 days
2 yrs. = 14 days
8 yrs. = 21 days
17 yrs. = 28 days
25+ yrs. = 42 days