PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 TO
 DISPUTE: and
 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
 STATEMENT 1. Claim made by Floyd L. Ray and A. E. Croy
 OF
 CIAIM: for the difference between straight time and time
 and one-half as operators for two hours each day
 -- July 26-29 and August 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 1977
 -- 19 days totalling 38 hours for Carrier's vio
 lation of Rule 24 (a) of the effective Agreement.
 2. The Carrier should compensate each of the
 named employes as indicated in Rule 24(a).
 FINDINGS: No truck being available to transport members
 of a Tie Unit between their headquarters at
 Decatur, Illinois and work site, the employes
 and their supervisor agreed that each employe
 would be allowed a two-hour straight-time arbi-
 trary each workday he used his own vehicle for such travel. This informal arrangement of cause did not modify the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
 In addition to that arbitrary allowance, claimants also received overtime for fueling area to d truck. They seek additional overtime instead of the arbitrary for fueling and picking up ice and water for the Tie Unit each morning.
 The claim lacks merit. The record indicates that claimants were adequately compensated. The two hour arbitrary at straight-time exceeds the amount to which they would have been. entitled even if their own theory of compensation were accepted. There is no convincing evidence to the contrary, so far as this
 record shows. g C E! y
 JUL 2 91981
 AWARD: Claim denied. e,~c,~ 0
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 Haro d M. West , Chairman
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