Originally Posted by
iLikeMoose
Is it a good strategy to YS a PM short call the day before a trip you don't want to be awarded, but are #1 in line for? They can't notify me during my SC of a trip outside my SC, that would be less than 18 hours after my SC ends, right? I know they could cut my SC short to give me 18 hours in between my SC and the trip, but my category has been slow that I am kind of betting they won't go to the trouble of that...
If you are willing to roll the dice on SC, then yes it is a good strategy that I have utilized before for the same reasons of avoiding especially bad trips. Correct that unless they cut your SC short (or you have a YS in), it is a min of 18hrs between end of SC and start of next assignment.
I've been on the back side of that as well. For example, I thought I wouldn't get assigned a particularly bad trip because there were 4 or so in front of me, only to get assigned said trip because all 4 in front of me got SC the day prior (ending <18hrs to report).