Originally Posted by
CBreezy
That doesn't mean there aren't terrible trips that don't start after 1800 or the 1800-2300 SC start times. In fact, there are lots of trips that report at 10p and block out at midnight. Or are just terrible trips anyways. I would take an easy 4 or 5 day starting in the last day of the reg month any day
I’m not saying there’s never a reason to do it, but more often then not people on FB seem to be surprised when they do something like that and don’t see any extra pay in the LC month. You just need to know what you’re doing and what the downsides are. Like I said, if you’re able, a higher-paying strategy would be to pick up a trip that ends on the last day of the REG month that then makes you illegal for those crappy RES trips based on 30/168. You earn the extra trip pay in its entirety and you earn an extra day+ off on LC when scheduling is forced to give you a 30 hour rest.
I agree that people can use this strategy to fill up, but that is almost (not entirely) a Nov-Dec strategy to get the holidays off. Someone might have a good reason to try to fill up early in Sept but that’s a very rare instance.