Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Not a nothing burger at all, because it allows you to CLEAR YOUR SCHEDULE of unfavorable trips so you can build it back with preferable trips. Just because you drop to zero doesn’t mean you are obligated to then stay at zero. And as you do, your original trips can be picked up by someone who finds them preferable to theirs.
The preferable trips are not always premium trips (although yeah, that too), just ones that fit into your personal wants and needs better than the ones PBS spit out at you.
One man’s meat is another man’s poison. It ain’t always about the money.
So it’s like what I can do with PTO bank, then pick up a trip or VDA with no obligation to work a BDA and get my PTO back. Cool story.