Not sure that I get your point Nexus. Why do you mention an 11 1/2 hour limit?
I just feel that there are too many pilots reporting to work who aren't fully rested. A 3 hour car journey, for me, is not playing the game. I just wondered what the situation was in other airlines and if there is any current legislation that actually puts any restrictions on how long a pilot can travel to his/her regular place of work.
It's not the time of report that you have to worry about it's the 13 hours later, after a multi-sector day, when you might make a serious mistake due to being tired. Maybe I'm wrong and nobody cares about this subject anymore. Certainly when I joined our contract said you had to live an hours drive from your home base. Things must have changed but one thing that hasn't changed is that a tired pilot makes mistakes.
A few months ago I did have to refuse to go into discretion because my co-pilot was simply to tired. He had driven in from Wales that day.