Originally Posted by RockyBoy

Be very careful with the yellow slip. About the only time you should put one in is if you know your going to get used and there is a trip that you would prefer to fly. Putting in a yellow slip for that specific trip is really the only good use for the yellow slip option. If you just put in a blanket yellow slip for the day and you are on long call, you really just put yourself on shortcall because when they call you with a trip it is not a proffer and they don't have to honor the 12 hour callout. Your better off to leave out the yellow slip and put in a green slip. If they call you on a LC day for a trip that reports within 12 hours and you have a greeslip in, you get greenslip pay for it if you want to do it, if you have a yellow slip in, you just have to do the trip. I guess the yellow slip option used to be much better when they had the hi/low stuff before the reserve rules were gutted during bankruptcy. Now it's pretty much worthless.