Originally Posted by zoooropa

This is straight from the NMB,without any "color" from either side:

Factors Indicating a Single Transportation System

The following are some indicia of a single transportation system:

(1) published combined schedules or combined routes;
(2) standardized uniforms;
(3) common marketing, markings or insignia;
(4) integrated essential operations such as
scheduling or dispatching;
(5) centralized labor and personnel operations;
(6) combined or common management, corporate officers, and board of directors;
(7) combined workforce; and,
(8) common or overlapping ownership.

We currently satisfy two out of the eight criteria (#6 and #8).

I don't know if we will ever satisfy #1 considering the fact that the fixed fee side doesn't even publish a schedule, or print tickets.

We don't have the same uniforms, and the NMB commonsly looks beyond this and references company manuals. We do not use the same manuals either.

Number three is similar to number one, the fixed fee side doesn't market and the livery is all over the place.

We do not have integrated essential operations. Neither scheduling nor dispatch are combined.

We do not have centralized labor and personnel operations.

We do not have combined lower and middle management, we do have combined officers.

No to #7 and yes to #8.

I believe that we may be ruled a single transportation system at some point, but I don't see how we can be today. Especially with the fixed fee side.