If we're allowed to, within the constraints of our ICAs?

Bonuses gone, gone, gone. I asked for my usual $100-$125 for a shop 4 hours from home, and was told they'd only pay $40. I said I would do all 3 shops in that town for $125, $90, and $110. They countered with $40, $60, and $70. Don't know about you, but I'm not driving 8 hours roundtrip for $170....one audit takes 2 hours, the second shop takes a minimum of an hour prep and 45 minutes on site, the 3rd was a gas station on the way there (but otherwise in the middle of nowhere). Plus reports, that's 15 hours. That's assuming, of course, that I find all the shops without getting lost, there's no road construction, etc.

I get the feeling those good old days, when I could be on the road 22 hours and do 7 shops for $560 are going, going, gone.

Comments?