Originally Posted by
kronan
Another thing I think we should reconsider is whether we truly want trips available to prime the pump for OT release.
I'm thinking this day and age rather than a handful of trips, assign 100% of the available trips to a VTO line holder.
I think that's a slippery slope. One of the main complaints from friends who work under a true PBS system is that very issue. The efficiency of the PBS system assigns all OT and as a result flexibility for trip trading is drastically reduced.
While our fleets usually don't have an abundance of OT when trip trading opens, I think some is far, far better than none at all. It gives some the option to trade which (in addition to any drops), starts a bit of a cascade that offers even more the option to tweak their schedule. I think completely emptying the OT for secondaries would effectively block much of that flexibility and would be a big mistake.