can anyone explain how the 15 hour spreadover works !!!
massey1200:
can anyone explain how the 15 hour spreadover works !!!
Hi massey1200, 
I wouldn’t want to confuse you, so I’ll leave your question to posters who can give a better explanation than I could. 
Yes.
In any period of 24 hours a driver under EU regulation 561/2006 (which came into force on Wednesday 11th April 2007) must have had 11 hours uninterrupted rest, however there is a derogation that allows you to reduce that uninterrupted rest period to Nine hours not more than Three time’s between any Two weekly rest periods.
Spreadover is not the correct term but a lot of drivers use it as it was mentioned in some former rules when Noah was driving.
Think simple arithmetic. 24 hours less 11 gives you 13. 11 + 13 = 24
24 hours less 9 gives you 15. 9 + 15 = 24
There is another way, an uninterrupted period of 3 hours followed by 9 hours within 24 hours gives you a 12 hour “spread” and you can do this every day for the rest of your born days providing you take weekly rest periods when required.
To be strictly accurate there is no such thing as a spreadover, 15 hours or otherwise, and it is an outdated term. However, it is generally accepted to refer to the time between the start and the end of your shift, your duty time. The regulations make no mention of spreadover, or duty time, and are built around the amount of rest required in the 24 hour period which begins when you resume work after a rest period.
This is 11 hours which can on three occasions between weekly rest periods be reduced to 9 hours. This means that if you do reduce down to the minimum of 9 hours you will have a duty time, or spreadover of 15 hours - 15+9=24. That’s all a ‘15 hour spreadover’ is and it doesn’t really ‘work’ in any particular way.
If you work for just 1 minute over 13 hours in your shift you will be using one of your available reductions, regardless of the amount of rest you actually take before resuming work because 24 hours minus 13 hours and 1 minute equals 10 hours and 59 minutes which is less then the normally required 11 hours.
Thanks guys
Coffeeholic:
To be strictly accurate there is no such thing as a spreadover, 15 hours or otherwise, and it is an outdated term. However, it is generally accepted to refer to the time between the start and the end of your shift, your duty time. The regulations make no mention of spreadover, or duty time, and are built around the amount of rest required in the 24 hour period which begins when you resume work after a rest period.This is 11 hours which can on three occasions between weekly rest periods be reduced to 9 hours. This means that if you do reduce down to the minimum of 9 hours you will have a duty time, or spreadover of 15 hours - 15+9=24. That’s all a ‘15 hour spreadover’ is and it doesn’t really ‘work’ in any particular way.
If you work for just 1 minute over 13 hours in your shift you will be using one of your available reductions, regardless of the amount of rest you actually take before resuming work because 24 hours minus 13 hours and 1 minute equals 10 hours and 59 minutes which is less then the normally required 11 hours.