Originally Posted by
Triumph
Short call eludes me. If I have a sc that started at say 0500 and it's now 1700, can they use me at all if they haven't called me yet? They need to give me 2.5 hours to show which puts me past the 14 hour mark. I asked a scheduled once and he said i had to be where i was going to be for the day by that 14th, be it a DH or a trip that RON'd somewhere. Other people I've asked have had different answers. Anyone have better gouge on this?
Don't confuse being assigned OFF a SC with being assigned FROM a SC. OFF a SC has to do with the current FDP. As you say it becomes problematic towards the end of it. FROM a SC has to do with a different FDP after a rest period. They can call 13:59 into SC and release you to rest for an FDP starting 10 hours from the call.
SC is used for both an immediate callout and for a sort of modified long call. That's why they won't release us just because they can't use us today. If they do we revert to a 12-hour callout. Why not just keep us on SC for the full 14 hours as they gain two hours on the long call callout requirement.