Originally Posted by
Shiner
This is such BS. Your misinformation is getting really old. You've said before you live in base and bid reserve, so how can you even answer his question truthfully?
Here's the answer from a junior line holder: Even if you get the worst 4 on/2 off, most uncommutable line in the entire bid packet, you can trade all of your trips to be commutable on one or both ends (sometimes transition trips can be hard to trade). I am not senior, usually get one of my last choices of lines, and trade every trip to make it commutable.
I get that QOL sucks here, but making stuff up just makes you look like you're pushing an agenda, and it doesn't help the new guys out.
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Uh, okay. What other posts of mine do you disagree with? If my supposed misinformation is getting old, you must have all kinds of specific disagreements. Let's hear some.
Yes, I almost always bid reserve, but I also have eyes and can read a bid packet. Perhaps I was wrong in that I failed to fully account for trip trading. Good for that you've had success trading out of most of the uncommutable lines you were awarded. During the few months I bid lines instead of reserve I had very mixed success trip trading. Even though I don't commute I definitely prefer late starts and early finishes, but often the only trips that provided that were crazy 8 or 10 hour 4-days that cost me a lot of money. This has been my experience, perhaps yours is different.
Anyway, since this is a discussion board it is likely beneficial for new hires to read an actual discussion, made of different opinions and perspectives and definitely not just one person's, whether that be mine or yours. If I erred in presenting the whole picture it wasn't out of some smear campaign or whatever you think, it was my honest opinion. QoL here is awful, and those in management who brush it off as whining are just plain insulting.