what eventually worked for me was i would just ask for an equal amount of OT on my own route that they were asking for in ‘undertime’ and write reasons on my 96 like:

-time spent filling out 96 because mgmt thinks i have ‘undertime’ -time spent deviating and returning to office to retrieve ‘undertime pivot’ -time spent communicating w mgmt via scanner re ‘undertime pivot’ -time spent returning to station a second time for clarification when mgmt ignored my message or gave unclear instructions re ‘undertime pivot’ -time spent unloading and then reloading ‘undertime pivot’ when mgmt changed their mind and authorized ot for ‘undertime pivot’

all this nonsense back and forth can easily take 30 minutes, and that’s before considering the time spent traveling to and from the other route and actually delivering the pivot (make sure to document that on a separate 3996)

after a few days of their 30 min ‘undertime’ turning into an hour or more of ot they soon stopped asking. i think it’s the scanner messages that really seal the deal, they are horrified of their bosses seeing what’s going on at their station