I live in AZ and I'm paid salary.
I started a new job recently. I drive a work vehicle from home, we're paid from 7:30-4 but often I'm assigned to jobs 30-50min from the house. A lunch break is not scheduled, only 30 minutes for drive time between jobs (2/day). I've been very stressed lately because any unforeseen issue that could add 30 minutes to a 3.5-4hr job immediately revokes that buffer and I often end up driving home at 5, which barely leaves me with enough time to eat dinner and go to bed just to do it again the next day. So I'm out from 6:30am to 5:30-6:30 pm every day and I'm not being compensated for those 2-3hrs extra that I'm driving their vehicle and I don't even have time to eat lunch, and this is a very exerting job.
I do like the management, but I can't help but feel like my goodwill is being taken advantage of. Should I ask for shorter days or increased pay? Time is more important to me than money, but I understand that shortening my days could impact job availability for the office, I just don't know what to do and feel like I'm running out of power…