At my previous employer, when I hired on it was stated that I will be required to be on call 24 hours/day, 7 days/week every couple of months. Also if there are still calls on the board at the end of my day I may be required to work overtime. Given these requirements my employer stated that my drive time to and from my house to job sites would be paid by the company minus one half an hour. Sounded fine to me. BUT, right before I quit we had a big meeting where we were told there would be no more paid travel and our GPS systems would be more closely monitored. In Houston (The City Of Perpetual Construction), no matter what time of day, the same 45 mile trip could take half an hour to an hour and a half. After arguing with every manager that this is a breach of my employment agreement, I was basically told to sit down and shut up. One of the other senior techs did the math and by not having to pay us travel time the owner got to keep about $1.6 mil in his pocket over the course of the year.