Originally Posted by
bugman61
The length you guys go to twist this into something bad is amazing. There is absolutely nothing new that they can do with a 9 hour window vs a 12 hour window. If they wanted more short calls today they could do them. If they want to move your call out up each day by a few hours, they can do that today (and they do). You are still limited by the total number of short calls each month, and by extension the entire base is limited that way as well.
There’s no trade off here. Just because the company decided to do it doesn’t make it bad.
The information was right in their explanation; you're not thinking it all the way through.
They acknowledged that the last three hours of SC were almost always a freebie.
That translates into, 95% chance of not working an assignment, and taking three hours out of the following day's LC time.
Make no mistake about it, there are several reasons they would choose to cut down SC:
- Additional LC time as mentioned above
- Most reserves don't quite get to the max SC each month anyway, so they will use this slack to assign more SC periods but for less time per period to be more efficient. Efficient in this case means less greenslips.