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Message:: [QUOTE="jmz, post: 12103475, member: 213084"]FxF is similar but a little more structured, although it probably sounds confusing. Road and City are completely separate, except at very small barns they’ll use the junior city driver to cover road driver vacations. I’m not too familiar with the city side, but there are some drivers on call who can come in early to cover vacations or come in late and do some extra deliveries and pickups that don’t otherwise fit on a route. They also don’t bid on routes, only tractors and start times, although they mostly run the same routes every day. On the road side, the extra board is on call from 5-9pm. They cover vacations/call ins/extra runs. If your run is cut, you go to the extra board and you may not necessarily find out until they call you. Dispatch always calls in seniority order, even if you have a bid run that gets cut, you’ll slot in to the extra board with your seniority. If your barn also has daytime linehaul, there’s another call block from 5-9am. Extra board drivers have to be available for the AM call block if they don’t take a run from the PM call block. PM bid drivers who get canceled and sent to the extra board do not have to wait for the AM call block if they don’t take a run. Also worth noting they need to give you 2hrs minimum from when they call to when you need to be out the gate. None of that “oh you need to be here in 45min or I’m giving it to a junior driver” crap.[/QUOTE]