Originally Posted by
marcal
FIxing 23M7 is NOT THE ANSWER. Fixing the trip coverage process is. Trip coverage worked fine for 97 years of our history. We need to focus on how to get back to that, not fixing the process that allows the company to completely disregard it.
Focusing on the penalty is acknowledging and normalizing the presently broken trip coverage process. This is what ALPA needs to figure out with the company.
So we've got votes to fix 23M7, and we've got votes to fix trip coverage. But to pull the truck out, you have to back the tractor even further back into the ditch.
The question people should be asking is why is there so much open time. If there was just a regular amount of open time, none of the rest of the stuff matters.