Originally Posted by
kwri10s
Not correct. The only "problem" with real time trading, is that according to the NC there will not be a time period where trips are sitting in open time waiting to be assigned.
They just didn't want to do little creative thinking and gave up.
If OTP was the big show stopper, there were definitely ways to make both options possible. Assuming the guy with OTP actually wants trips, then he puts in a request for trips (even dictates some specific criteria for what he might want), just like any general M/U request. But, obviously his request gets priority. The idea that he's going to wait around until something actually shows in OT to act is ridiculous. He either wants a trip or he doesn't. He puts in when and what he wants and he's done.
Now (assuming we had RTTT) when something pops into OT that meets his or anyone else's OTP request, they automatically get it based on time stamp of their request? seniority? I don't know? Whatever is in the rules.
If the trip doesn't meet any existing OTP requests in the system, then it's a standard food fight for that and any other trip in OT except in real time - not "when I get around to it" CRS time.
How hard would that have been?