Perhaps you're right in one regard. To be able to hide behind the banner ( or should I say excuse) called business, you must be completely devoid of a conscience . Furthermore operating conditions in a depressed mountainous rural area are completely different from the ones you are familiar with. Such as dispatched routes in rural areas that are money losing pursuits for the company even more so if that area is contracted. I mean you're talking 250+ miles for 30 stops. Now if the terminal can get some unsuspecting contractor to send out that so called supplemental with no core zone, no van availability , no mileage, no fuel supplement stop and piece volume only imagine the savings and the positive impact it would have for the terminals bottom line. And do it on a daily basis, there's no reason for them to contract the area if they've got some dumb contractor who's foolish enough to send a sup.....you tell me why would they do it if there's no need to? Especially at a profit challenged terminal that was designated for closing twice in it's first 3 years of operation. This is turn turned up the heat on the question of what is a supplemental and what is a noncontracted route?