Car pooling would save even more. If Employee A were to drive 28 miles RT in a car that got an average of 14 MPG, that means s/he would burn 2 gallons of gas. At $4/gallon, that's $8 of gas per day or $40 per week. Now if that same person were to start a car pool with three co-workers and each one paid a fourth of the price for gas, that equals out to $2 per day per passenger or $10 per week per passenger.

And trust me, since my wife is currently working 4-10s, I don't get to see much of her (not to mention that our days off don't coincide makes it worse), and it really grates on me. By the time she comes home, she's hot, tired, and ready to go to sleep. If I were to end up working 4-10s, you can add groggy, grouchy and generally PO'd, not something you'd want in an underpaid, overworked state employee (I think the technical term is called "going postal" ). And I don't live or work in the capital city of Jackson (thankfully); that city is an insane asylum as is. Oh, and remember, those 10 hours do not include lunch, which really makes it 11 hours; add in the commuting time and you're looking more at 12-13 hour days.