FDXLAG,
How are you able to see the paycode for these guy's trips?
It doesn't have to be PMU to trump a trip trade.
Scenario:
Trip drops into open time, double deadhead. Frozen
You are determined to get it and sit at your computer for hours refressing the screen. Finally it opens up and you submit your trade.
If I have a general makeup request in the system that I either just put in when the trip appeared or if I put it in days prior, I get the trip and you get earlier timestamp. No PMU involved!
I am not saying that there isn't some funny stuff going on, only pointing out a way to increase your chances.
Any kind of makeup has priority over trip trade.
And I still want to know how one may access another's pay code.