Originally Posted by e6bpilot

Self professed overlap expert here.

1. Read the contract. There is a whole section on it. If you know what you are doing, overlap can be very profitable for your pay or time off.
2. Don’t trust anyone here. Most of them have no idea what they are talking about (including me).
3. Anything pulled in the current bid period is paid. Anything in the next period is unpaid. If you get it pulled unpaid, you qualify for otp. You will get an email from SWAPA. Again, see the contract.
5. If you are ever unsure what the company will do and you are bidding overlap, just imagine the worst legal thing they can do and that’s usually it. Every now and then they will surprise you and pull something paid in the current month if their open time inventory is too high in overlap. If I wanted them to pull days, I would generally elitt into overlap days in the current month and then find the most untenable trip possible with conflicting schedules and overnights that are more than 500 or so miles away and bid that. I could pretty much count on dropping 2-3 days a month.
7. Good luck. It’s a fun game to play, but you have to take a L every now and again. It’s how you learn.