I recently traveled to another company to try to debug the company's hardware that they were building for us. The hardware consists of a CPU and a large CPLD, etc. I wrote all of the firmware code and much of the test code, and had identified hardware failures on earlier boards. Anyway, I didn't have to pay a thing for the airline flights, hotel, or rental car. However, when I asked if I was getting paid for my time spent traveling (~ 12 hours in airports/airplanes). I was told that was not normally done. BTW I eventually did get my company to pay for my travel time, so I am content. But, is paying for travel time standard practice or not?
-Dave P