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05-21-2007, 02:20 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by Beaverdam
Fedexbusboy,
If you have 10 R-days in a row, and your 3 days of recurrent training end up in the middle of your R-days, all 10 R-days get dropped, and you have to do make up if you want to get paid in that month. That sucks a lot of trips out of open time. It used to be that you only dropped the R-days in conflict and the days on either end weren't very efficient for crew skeds.
If you have 10 R-days in a row, and your 3 days of recurrent training end up in the middle of your R-days, all 10 R-days get dropped, and you have to do make up if you want to get paid in that month. That sucks a lot of trips out of open time. It used to be that you only dropped the R-days in conflict and the days on either end weren't very efficient for crew skeds.
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05-21-2007, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by USNFDX
Yeah, but you have one less guy on reserve. 6 in 1/2 dozen the other. or somthing like that. You are now picking up trips during the view/add that you would have been assigned on reserve before.
What really helps them (and us) is the removal of the 48 open time blackout. Before, if you wanted one of those trips, you had to roll the dice with a general make-up, now we can see these trips, some very cherry, and pick them up. The result is low reserve utilization and almost no VLT or Draft.
What really helps them (and us) is the removal of the 48 open time blackout. Before, if you wanted one of those trips, you had to roll the dice with a general make-up, now we can see these trips, some very cherry, and pick them up. The result is low reserve utilization and almost no VLT or Draft.
Originally Posted by Beaverdam
Fedexbusboy,
If you have 10 R-days in a row, and your 3 days of recurrent training end up in the middle of your R-days, all 10 R-days get dropped, and you have to do make up if you want to get paid in that month. That sucks a lot of trips out of open time. It used to be that you only dropped the R-days in conflict and the days on either end weren't very efficient for crew skeds.
If you have 10 R-days in a row, and your 3 days of recurrent training end up in the middle of your R-days, all 10 R-days get dropped, and you have to do make up if you want to get paid in that month. That sucks a lot of trips out of open time. It used to be that you only dropped the R-days in conflict and the days on either end weren't very efficient for crew skeds.
05-21-2007, 03:00 PM
#33
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Originally Posted by FedExBusBoy
I was thinking the same thing as USNFDX....it's all a wash basically. I dont think it gives us more manning at all. Some guys may pull the trick to get a block of days off for the month and it just goes into their MU bank. I know I did it a few months ago. Now you've lost a man for possibly a whole month if he does a span of 12 or 16 R-days in a row............
05-21-2007, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by fdx727pilot
Of course, the guy has to realize that if he drops those days for recurrent, and doesn't pick up something, he's not going to make squat for the month. Those 4 or 5 days of reserve become his new BLG.
05-21-2007, 08:11 PM
#39
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Originally Posted by FedExBusBoy
And some guys may not want to make squat because he has another job on the side. To each his own..........
Disclaimer - Wife did a 1 year stint in crew pay, before moving on to better things.
05-22-2007, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Toccata
Also, for additional info, in addition to the last of the 100s mentioned, we'll be losing a couple of 200s this year also.
Thanks.
Thanks.
