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.
This is
absolutely not true. I “strand” a single day all the time. nene is correct.
What you may be thinking of is IF you have a single day of reserve on the last day of the prior bid period, AND you do
not have an X day on the first day of the subsequent bid period, PBS will force compliance with the 3-99-5 or 4-99-4 rules. BUT, you absolutely can bid an x-day on the first after a single LC day on the 30th.