Originally Posted by
FmrFreightDog
Ok reserve gurus. Tomorrow is my seventh day in a stretch of 12 or so. Scheduling just called and put me into rest from midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow night (all day the 27th). What exactly are my obligations? Do I have to check my schedule after 3 PM? Do I have to acknowledge anything prior to the end of my rest period? When is the earliest trip report of short call I can be assigned? Is it 0001 on the 28th or noon on the 28th?
Thanks.
I know that ACL has already responded to this but since I have dealt with this a couple of times, I thought I would pass along my experience. CS has a difficult time dealing with these rest days. Sometimes they don't even track them well. One month I had 2 rest days scheduled only 2 days apart because they didn't document something about the first one.
As far as obligations, there is no obligation to answer the phone, check the computer or otherwise acknowledge CS DURING the rest. What they can assign depends on when they do it. If they wanted to assign something that starts immediately following your rest, they would have to put it on your schedule BEFORE your rest starts. With rest starting at midnight that is unlikely. Since your rest is midnight to midnight, everything is based on what they could do to you on your last day off before RES. Nothing can be assigned to you to start before 0500 after your rest. If anything is assigned after 1500 the day of your rest, it must not start before Noon. If you check your schedule after 1500 on the day of rest and nothing shows up, you know that you will have no obligations before Noon.
If my memory is incorrect WRT this, my apologies.