This is mostly subjective of course but thought I'd remind people to look into if this applies to you.
I worked a technician job several years ago in where at one point I was required to travel between client sites. My boss told me “simply” travel on your lunch and pick up lunch on the way. This was an hour between sites, and they did pay for mileage based off Google maps. Me being the dumb noob that I was did so for several days until a senior co-worker informed me I was being shafted. He told me I shouldn't be travelling for work on MY lunch break. So the following week I began adding TWO hours of travel to my timesheet, but still working my four hours at each site. Well low and behold I accrued overtime. My boss calls me up asking why I have overtime, and told him after speaking with a relative (I lied) about my work, that they had informed me about how I shouldn't be travelling on my lunch, and my main job site is client 1 so the hour “back” is still applicable. He back peddled soooo much ” I NEVER told you to travel on your lunch, I assumed you knew to charge that time.. no no no. You are correct travelling between sites is work related”. I cut my actual work day by two hours, LOL.
Few weeks later we hired a new person to off load incoming work from other sites. Since I was the recently newest before him I was point of contact for any help he needed, makes sense. One week new guy called me AFTER work asking for help, it only took several minutes answering questions and I was happy to help as I've been there. Again my senior told me, state law says you get called outside normal working hours that's work.. anything less than an hour is still an hour. So, there I went charging that time. Boss again has a convo with me. Told him about helping new guy off hours and state law says minimum time is an hour whether it's a minute or 59 mins. He said ok. I was never called outside of work again. He informed new guy to call him instead, of course cuz he's salary.
I passed on my knowledge to new guy of these things just as I was enlightened by my seniors.
This came to mind because I just spoke with a friend who travels an hour to and from their office to a rural work site. He runs a crew of six people, and each guy charges that travel as work. Different state, but same rule applies. They load up in a company truck so he's at least not putting wear on his vehicle.
“The more you know…” bing biiing bing biiiiiiiiing.