as long as work is available. That to me is a 40 hour guarantee. If they cut your run on a Monday you are still guaranteed 8 hours you have to tell them I will be in for my 8. If they say there is no work available for you then it is a lay-off and 22.4's can't work.
I am going to try and not be negative but this has been explained for months now, I do not understand people's confusion!
"as long as work is available." Those are the operative words and the only words that matter in the entire paragraph! Lets try this as an analogy, I write a contract and sign it stating these words, "I am going to give you 1 million dollars on Oct 14th, 2018, unless I don't feel like it." Now I ask you in all sincerity, do you think I am actually going to give you $1 million?
Once 22.4's are fully implemented loads will be advanced and pulled back so that current Mondays will be further shrunk and Tuesdays will start getting effected! Less routes means less drivers on the days when the second class drivers, the 22.4's, are not scheduled to work (Tues-Sat and Wed-Sun when and if Sunday deliveries are implemented.) Routes will be cut, thus work is reduced, thus
"no work is available."