Justinm thanks for your reply, the post was very informative. Are you a city or an upper state tech? Anyhow it sounds like you found a real sweet spot up there in NY. Can you PM me with some details I'm thinking about moving.

I just want to make enough to fill my own gas tank up, and have a pizza + beer at the end of the week and not have to tell my friends no when they want to venture out for the weekend because my employer can't charge portal to portal, witch I think is a fair compromise between having your tech give up travel and the customer paying too much. I was hoping someone in a management position would post and tell us why portal to portal travel charges are not considered. This practice would allow us to get paid for all travel but the ride home unless its more than a 1/2 hour.

Does anyone have some data on right to work states i would like to know which ones are and aren't. Just to compare.