Originally Posted by
KnightNight
On reserve you can aggressive pick up and try break guarantee (74 most months ,77 summer months), you get 1 add pay for short call unused, if it’s a late build short call you get another hour. You can also volunteer to sit reserve on day off, if you do that the day before your trip and they use you you get 50% add pay for whole trip, if you do it on your last day you only get 50% of the last day of the trip. If you get rolled into days off on reserve (mostly a WB issue) you get 5:15 add pay and the day off restored. There’s also add pay for stuff outside peoples control , late arrivals, extended duty days etc
reserve is 73 hours, except summer (June, July, august), and December, which adds a day and gives the 4:17 reserve day credit.
also, unused short calls are no longer add pay. It’s an hour extra MPG (which I strongly dislike). The add pay was only during the time it took to implement the new contract changes. So, it hasn’t been like that since August 2024.
a good way to get extra is to pick up a trip that starts before 10am on your first day of reserve (2 hours add pay). Also, if you’re on a short call and they give you a trip that starts soon, if you can report fast, you can get 1-2 hours add pay.