it depends on who you work for, i live an hour away from my work and obviously don't get paid for travel timw but my girlfriend was on placement last month and she was working between 2 offices and they told her to take her travel time as "toil" so if she was travelling from one office to the other and it took her half an hour she either left half an hour early or came in half an hour later the next day providing she didn't have appointments. you don't start the actual job at 8 so your boss is right.