Originally Posted by tennisguru

Minor point of clarification: yes, at the end of a month when you are bidding for reserve you can have less than the required number of LC days (3 or 4 depending on your fleet), but when the next month rolls around PBS will force you (if you bid reserve again) to add as many LC days in the following bid period to bring you up to the required number of days. So you can’t be off Nov 29, bid one LC day on Nov 30th, AND get PBS to give you Dec 1 off if you bid reserve in December. If you go from reserve to regular you are allowed to “strand” those day(s) at the end of the prior bid period. Also I think if you have a regular line trip that either ends on the last day of the bid period or carries into the following bid period those trip days are looked at like they are LC days for following the 3 or 4 day length rule.