Originally Posted by
Scoop
Rocky,
I don't understand how running PCS three times a day vice continuously prevents guys from dropping or picking up trips. If someone has a trip next week that they want to drop what difference does it make if is dropped real time or at the next PCS run in a few hours? If the coverage is good it will drop in either system.
I am also having a hard time understanding how three PCS runs a day, inhibit "daily" open time changes. Guess I picked the wrong week to quit "Ginko."
Continuous PCS runs may increase the churn a little, but three daily runs is not that bad.
The open time at DAL may indeed be stagnant, but that is not because PCS only runs three times a day. It is because PCS minimizes open time and there is generally not much to choose from.
Scoop
This is the way it was explained to me by one of our illustrious schedulers (craysons and small, less than 2 syllable words were required):
The 3 time PCS run actually helps protect the junior guys during greenslips. If greenslips start dropping at say, 1400....then of course the senior guys will go "ooh! please!" But only the greenslips that were already in during the earlier PCS run would be honored. Gotta wait for the 1800 run to jump in the party in that case.
As far as the other stuff, it does seem to help seniority...
I'm kinda on the fence between multiple runs or a fully automated system. At my previous carrier, it was similar to ASA. We emailed in our requests... if the groundhog saw his shadow, denied.