Originally Posted by AdiosMikeFox

When lines are not commutable, have only a day or two off between 3 and/or 4 day trips strung 3 or 4 in a row people are going to get burned out. If you're on one of those lines it's going to result in being home only 1-2 nights between trips over 16 days.

I haven't heard of anyone getting drops approved, either.

So you get your butt worked off for 11-13 days off, much of which has a big possibility of being non-commutable, and get paid 72-75 hours.

I'm looking at the bid pack and see a 5 trip line with 2 days off between each trip and every trip either starts around 0800 or has a finish after 2100. I can't think of any legal way to commute for that off the top of my head without losing a day off to commute in early, and even a local would get burned out after a while doing this schedule.

So yeah, people are going to call in sick because they're tired. Literally. There's no time to recover. I guess it's cheaper to fire people than to fix the schedules. Just my opinion.