Geez you know way more now than you did when you first hit the route as a newby RCA. This will come way easier, if you let it, but only you can decide to do it. We can only advise and coach. Good luck what ever way you go.

geez , pat, an rca new to a route gets 24 hrs training, it is true they can put you on a route that you dont know untrained, to keep from having to make a regular carrier off the work day relief list work , and then getting paid overtime, but after they schedule you for that route you are still entitled to the training , and i would ask for it,

Gas was over #3.40 here less than two weeks ago, now $2.89. In Chicago (150 miles away) it is $3.50 and up. I hope your prices drop as fast as ours have. And stay that way or go lower.
  Still, it cost me $49.00 to fill up. I can remember doing it for a little over twenty bucks not that long ago. Of course, as an old timer, I can remember gas at $.22 per gallon. LOL

  PS. Oil was $.15 a quart. And they pumped your gas for you, checked the oil, AND the tire pressure. Used to be something called "full service". But that has kinda went the way of the "service" we are allowed to provide to our customers on the route nowadays huh?

Does this part of the contract not mean what I think it means then?

3. A leave replacement utilized on a route for
which he/she has not served in the past 12
months will be paid the greater of actual hours
worked or the evaluation of the route (up to 40
hours).

Paid $3.19 for gas today in Texas.

Edited by author 10-06-2008 07:22 PM
$3.17 In Nebraska today

Wally World here at $2.84. The rest at $2.89. East central Iowa.

3.55 upstate NY

Oil ended below $90.00 per barrel today.

$3.39 for gas in northern Wi today. Can't wait for the next EMA adjustment . Have we hit our high? Just when it looks a bit better, it drops .

$2.95 in the South Kansas City area. I'm sure it will be even lower tomorrow.

Just dipped to $3.42 in west Michigan this afternoon. It takes them 5 seconds to jump the price up 30-40 cents but when it comes to bringing it down it's like 12 root canals and pulling teeth!

The lowest price I remember as a kid was 19-cents a gallon when there would be 3-4 gas stations across the street from each other and they would have "gas wars." When I started driving it was 50-cents per gallon and 50-cents for a pack of smokes.
And people bitch when stamps go up a penny a year.

/m14620 Wave - I am sorry - just re-read the contract about RCA being thrown on a new route... didn't realize it said up to 40hrs... my asst state steward told me it was for the first day.. I guess you would most definitely run over 40 hours if you run a route for a week that you were not familiar with. Perhaps if you only ran route for 3-4 days at 10 hrs a day - only then would you not go into overtime and get the actual pay if under 40 hours. Sorry bout that....

I have been trying to find the message with the url to the information about color coded cards. Could somebody help me please.

3.75 in Alabammy. What a longgg day eh?