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Hours of Service Calculator

  • Time worked
  • Rested — earliest return to duty
  • Engineer detention begins
  • Conductor detention begins

Rest = 10 hours federally mandated, plus any time worked beyond 12 hours. Detention begins 14 hours (engineer) / 15 hours (conductor) after off-duty.

Claims

Please select the claim that you are interested in below:

  • If your called for through freight A to B service and you relieve a train and bring it back to A inside the switching limits, then you take either a train or a cab and end up at B then your entitled to a PH claim for a 2nd days pay.
  • If you take your train from A to B then told to go back outside of switching limits for the 2nd train from B station and bring it back inside station B that qualifies you for a 2nd days pay via PH claim.
  • If you are called at the away from home terminal and perform relief service and then deadhead home after that service, then you can claim a PH code for your 2nd days pay.
ALLOW 8 HOURS ACCOUNT BEING CALLED OUT OF AWAY TERMINAL 148H, ATLANTA ON //** TO RELIEVE TRAIN 23EA101 AT COOSA, AL, MP758. DELIVERED TRAIN BACK TO THE AWAY-FROM-HOME TERMINAL (148H) ATLANTA, GA. THEN DEADHEADED BACK HOME TO 791 BIRMINGHAM, AL. PLEASE ALLOW ONE TRIP RATE FOR PERFORMING HOURS OF SERVICE RELIEF ON A TRIP RATED ASSIGNMENT AND THEN COMBINE SERVICE DEADHEADING HOME.

To be eligible for Short Term Relief Service (RT) and a 2nd day's pay, you must:

  • Work out 25 miles or more then turn back for a total of 50 miles or more.
  • Work over 8 hours on first train, then relieve a 2nd train.
  • Accumulate over 100 miles then relieve a 2nd train.
List ALL trains you handled and times of departure and arrivals along miles of each run on the required RT information screen.
Miles must equal total miles entered on tie up screen.