Originally Posted by
Sparrowhwk
Yes, from my limited exposure to this I believe if you are on the hook for coverage - it is supposed to look at your requested trips and try to assign one of those before putting a random trip on you for coverage. So it's a good idea to bid trips you can tolerate if you're likely to be subject to coverage. Also I think it does the coverage first, then runs your bids as usual, that's why it's at the top of the reasons report.
I believe there is info on this in the SRH or PBS handbook (sorry don't have them to hand) and also an Engage podcast that explains coverage.
This is correct, much in the same way PBS will try to meet your commuting report/release parameters on a coverage award as well. A coverage award is not permission to PBS to just put whatever trip it wants on your schedule. It will try to honor whatever other parameters it can that you've entered in your bid.