Additional hours when working away

[aytri]

So to clarify, your normal base is close to home but they've asked you to go to another site for 3 days a week? Is this right?
But they're paying for the train and hotel for this extra travel?

So where does this minimum 9 hours come into it?

Exactly right. Another site, 4 hours away, 3 days a week. They'll pay for the train and hotel costs. The first I heard about it was yesterday.

The contract says that I basically have to work 9 hours a day to get my day rate of £n, but if I do a 13.5 hour day, I get £n * 150%.

My question was, given that the travel time plus the working time takes me over 13.5 hours, would I be justified in asking for that 13.5 hour day rate (i.e. the £n * 150%), even though I might not be actually working for 13.5 hours?

I will certainly have to discuss it, given that it wasn't mentioned at interview at all - but I wondered how any additional travel time beyond what you'd normally do would be treated from a contractual point-of-view.

[MPwannadecentincome]

why not go by train and work on the train and then you might go above the 13.5 hours?