This always confused me. When I was an MT, I was required at times to drive my personal vehicle. I never understood why I was required to drive my personal car when I was working for the single largest car buyer in the country. If it was around town, it was no big deal. I might do it once or twice a week.

But the issue I have is driving for required events. Not the happy hours, those were semi-optional. My AM would setup after hours meetings at his office, which was 2 counties away and over 60 miles driving time. We would lock the doors at 6-6:15 and were expected down there at 7 to begin the meeting. Of course, no rental was provided, even though the whole branch was going down there. But then when I asked about being reimbursed for driving, I was given a quarter tank of gas on the company card. Using the IRS reimbursement rate for the round trip, I should have been paid almost $60!

So my question, is this a practice that happens in other areas? Or if you had a mandatory trip that wasn't on the clock, did your manager give you a rental to drive, or how was it handled? Is this something that could be pursued in court if this happened frequently?? Just curious, I don't care about suing them, its over and done with for a while, but it happened a half dozen times to me in my year and a half there.