To tag on to this thread, I am at the point where I am very close to full time. I have a full time job so i am not a TCD. I was told if i sign the bid but pass it up after realizing i would not make the fulltime cut, that they could wait a year before they offered it to me again. If i would have signed and not made the cut for full time i would have been top TCD, but i have a full time job and need the income. We have so many full timers that TCDs do touch a car. Our bottom rung full timers are getting their 8 by working preload and local sort evenings and bumping lower seniority part timers. Any advice and the best way for me to slide into full time without loosing seniority to those who are currently TCDs but with less time than me? Do i have to finish 30 day pacage as TCD before going into full time? Or should i wait it out and go in without driving TCD? I was also told that doing the later would put me in at same pay as ooutside hire, 16 per hr.