Originally Posted by
2GoodEngines
Thanks for the info! Yeah I think I understand what your saying on #1. So tell me if this sounds right - the company puts ALL of their trips for the month in the initial bid of hard lines (meaning no open time exists at that point), then when the ILIW opens, it’s mayhem for the first few minutes because basically all that’s happening is people are dropping trips into open time, up until the point that all days are at zero coverage (or close to). Then after the initial mayhem, there’s the opportunity to maybe swap trips one for one that are in open time (like if you have a 4 day starting on 2/5 and there’s a 4 day trip in open time starting on 2/5 that you like better, you could swap that, but that’s really all you can do at that point, correct? Are you able to further refine things in the secondary window? Thanks for the info!
You almost right.
First union build lines. Line holders pick up those in seniority order. When biding is close you can see trips in open time. Also you can see reserve coverage and you can start thinking about your strategy for ILIW. When ILIW opens you can trade/swap from open time with limits (can’t go below 60h credit and 0 coverage). Basically I know what I want to do day before ILIW opens.
For example I have the line of 90h and 12 days off consist from 4 trips (17 25 25 23) and I want to more days off, day before ILIW I see trip 1 and 4 have coverage and trip 2 and 3 touch 0 days. And I see the 2days trip in open time of 10h. When ILIW opens I’ll trade trips 1 and 4 for 2days trip and I have now 6 more days off. It could be a lot more combinations.