Originally Posted by Banjo33

I was a commuter until last year and I was pretty successful with dropping trips via the trip board. It helped when there weren’t many trips in open time.

Lessons I learned: Bid base trip lines as shorter 1-3 day trips are pretty easy to drop, week-long are next to impossible. A 1-3 day trip with a CML on the front end or back end or both was almost a guarantee drop. After having very little success with Line Improvement Trip Trading, I decided it wasn’t worth the effort so I quit trying. Sometimes I’d only throw a couple of strategic trips on the board in order to eliminate a day or two sit in the crashpad between trips. Sometimes I’d throw my whole schedule on the board and just wait until about half or so would get picked up and then pull the remaining off to maintain my 35 or whatever it is hours and prevent a penalty on my benefits. I wasn’t chasing dollars, so I was very regularly dropping down to about 40 hrs/month. Spent so much time on the lake in my boat I actually got sick of it and my wife got tired of me hanging around the house all the time 😂