Travel and zones
Zone Travel Calculator
What the agreements pay for travel beyond the studio zone — mileage in dollars, travel time in hours, the clause cited. Bring your own kilometres for now.
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Where the driving happened
Which agreement
The two differ on the number that matters most, so nothing is preselected.
Transportation — asked first, because it changes the answer
Under BCCFU 5.04, provided transportation must be used; being excused at your own request means your travel is at your own expense. Riding provided transport still earns the capped travel time — 5.03 does not condition it on the mode.
The day and the drive
Four rates apply inside this term, so the date decides the money.
Your own number — odometer or maps app. Auto-fill from the boundary engine comes later.
Result
Pick the agreement, answer the transportation question, and set the date — the working appears here.
Sources and method
The two agreements differ on the number that matters most. BCCFU pays travel time outside a Studio Zone at straight time, capped at half an hour a day (5.03(a)). The DGC pays it as working time with no cap in the same clause (22.6(c)). That is why the agreement is the first question and nothing is preselected.
The transportation question — under BCCFU 5.04, provided transportation must be used, and an employee excused from it at their own request travels at their own expense: no travel time pay, no mileage. Riding provided transport bars only the mileage — the travel time articles in both agreements pay regardless of the mode. The DGC has no excused provision at all: under 22.6(b) the employer provides transportation or pays mileage to an employee agreeing to use a personal vehicle. Where mileage applies, it runs from the nearest Studio Zone limit to the location and back.
The rate table — four rates inside one term, identical in both agreements: $0.35 from April 1, 2025, $0.43 from April 6, 2025, $0.48 from April 5, 2026, and $0.55 from April 4, 2027 (BCCFU 5.02/5.04; DGC 22.6(b)). The date you enter decides the money. All four figures and dates were visually verified against the agreement PDFs on August 31, 2026 — three separate tables read off the rendered pages, all agreeing — which is what retired the estimate only label.
BCCFU 5.03(b) — travel on a day with no work is its own calculation: the greater of a four-hour allowance or actual time travelled, never more than eight hours, and a second consecutive travel day is paid as a day worked at no less than minimum call.
DGC 22.6(c), non-work days — a maximum of one day’s pay; on sixth days, seventh days, or holidays, the greater of the daily or pro-rated weekly rate (including over-scale) or all hours travelled. A day’s pay is a wage this site never asks for, so the tool names the rule and reports the hours instead of inventing a dollar figure.
Rounding is yours, not ours. BCCFU 4.05 counts time in one-tenth (.1) hour increments with any portion paid as a whole tenth — but whether that article governs travel time under 5.03 is a reading, and BC set practice rounds travel time to the nearest tenth. Where the two produce different numbers, this tool shows both, labelled, and your timecard convention decides — most of the time the half-hour cap makes them agree anyway. The DGC computes all times in six (6) minute increments (21.1) but states no direction, so DGC hours are shown unrounded with the increment cited. Kilometres are taken to the first decimal place, which is set practice with no clause against it.
Kilometres are yours for now. Read the round trip off your odometer or maps app, measured from the nearest zone limit — the zone maps show where that is. Auto-fill from the boundary road network is built and gated behind its own human sign-off, and will land here when it clears.