Originally Posted by
Jetjok
So here's my new idea. I'm going to start a consulting business. A very specialized business that only deals with finding out if a FedEx pilot, has been assigned a trip. Here's how it will work... You call me and I check your calendar to see if they've actually had the nerve to make you work for the money that they pay you. If indeed they've assigned you a trip, I immediately call you back with the appropriate information. Then, once a month, I bill you, say a couple of bucks, for the convenience of having someone else check your schedule for you, and thereby providing you with a plausible deniability. Yeah, that's what I'll do from now on.
JJ
I can show an example of why you want to check your calendar first and NOT click Crew Notification!
Last Dec, 5 days prior to Christmas, my B727 SO crashpad roomie, on B reserve with 5 days left, had just told me that he appeared clear and free for the day as all trips had been assigned and he was number 5 on the list. It was about 1pm.
An hour or so later he was p!ssed off as could be. He rechecked VIPS and saw a Crew Notification and clicked it. He had been assigned a 5 day trip that had a midnightish show time, 3 legged it and ended up in Portland, ME at about 930a. It returned to MEM at midnight Christmas Eve. Not a great place to spend Christmas for a commuter.
By clicking the Crew Notification and officially being notified, a legal rest period then ensued and the assigned trip was his. If he had NOT clicked on the trip, then the onus was on CRS to call him and if THEY forgot (a possibility) or were late, then that trip may not have been legal for him to accept per the contract and reserve assignment.
Of course his sponsor, cough, cough RT, cough cough, let him down by telling him previously that if you have a Crew Notification that you can do nothing in VIPS until you accept it.
I fixed him!
