Originally Posted by
sailingfun
That would only apply if the person dropping the trip has no intention of picking up something else. 90% of the time they are dumping a trip to grab something else.
True. I'll agree with that. So it may cost us jobs, but the flexibility is nice to have.
Most of us who use it don't do so to get around the ALV+15. I always personal drop crappy trips during the first PCS run so I'll use the swap board to snag a trip that may be better than any of the junk left in the pot (which is what ends up there after the first PCS run) to get back to at least the GS pay trigger for the month.
It's nice to have that flexibility without running into a limit. I've had tons of months where I have a max pickup limit of like 10:15 so I can't pick up a piece of cake commutable 2-day and have to grab a 4-leg uncommutable one day or something like that. You can go to the swap board and find an easy 2-day or something better than a crummy long day trip and have no limit to stop you.