Lodging for work. What distance is reasonable?

[DeanR32]

Evening all

I'm lodging for work for the next month or so (Monday for 4 nights, returning on Friday) and I fking hate it.

I'm in essex and working in brighton, so it's 80 miles give or take a couple yards. On a good day, it's 90 mins travelling, now the dartford tunnel is altered, and anything up to 2 1/2 hours if there's problems.

Is there a compulsory lodging distance/time? Have you lodged before, and what sort of distance was you working?

Just having a moan off!

[DeanR32]

We live 80 miles from site, so we have to lodge, which is roughly 5 miles from site. It just seems a very short distance to have to lodge imo

[DeanR32]

We can pretty much turn up when we want to. 9am wouldn't be frowned upon at all really.

We usually leave around 6am for anywhere we work. Our last job was almost 70 miles, and we travelled that every day. Just wondered what seemed a reasonable distance to travel, and if there was a compulsory distance or travelling time.

[DeanR32]

Thanks for the replies.

We were working in South East London (approx 30 miles) and there were days when it took 2hrs door to door. We can do brighton in 1 1/2hrs at the moment as it's all motorway.

There's three of us in one van, the team leader drives (as it's his van), but we're all insured to drive, and diesel is a covered expense for us, as is the digs, which are never terrible. If I opt to drive in seperate, I'd have to try and claim the petrol instead of the lodging costs.

I thought there were rules and regs for driving certain hours or distances in a day where we are obligated to lodge.