Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
I'm sorry if I'm still not getting it - but I think you're asking how would secondary lines work under a PBS system?
With PBS, there are no secondary lines. In simple terms, everyone gets our current equivalent if a secondary line. Everyone inputs their desires and lines get built based on them. No need for secondaries since there are no vacation, training or other types of conflicts that create the flood of open trips we currently see after training is bid, vacations are slid, etc. PBS builds the schedules around those known conflicts.
Yeah- we're running circles. My original question came from a post by Kolohe:
(shortened) "... planned to sell us PBS as the secondary line replacement vehicle".
My question isn't how PBS works- I think I already understood, and why we don't want it as our primary/only way of bidding. My question is, keeping our current
primary system of bid lines, how would PBS be different if used for our
secondary system? Not use PBS wholly, use it only for secondary lines... how would that be different than what we have now? One guess would be PBS, if written into contract language, would include elimination of vacation buffers...
Clear as mud?
Thanks bud.