Originally Posted by TED74

Could just be semantics, but trips are never awarded in a shadow period, so they are never dropped. This is important when considering pay, as you don't receive pay for days of a trip that fall outside the shadow window. For instance, a five day trip that starts on the last day of a shadow period will only yield one day of pay and not five. And that five day trip will be awarded to a junior bidder at the original award as though you never bid it (unless it doesn't fit into a junior bidder schedule, in which case it goes to open time).