I agree with most of what is said here and as i am sitting here in a dark house with the family asleep suffering the ground based jet lag of shift workers it makes me think as well. I too had the drive home yesterday with sudden shocks on the motorway. The enevitable horns at the traffic lights and peers from other sensible drivers as they go past.As an LAE i am in the background most of the time and can remember all too well the many 24 hr + shifts due necessity. I force myself to get rest before duty and still suffer. The plain facts are, nightshift is against what the body wants to do. It is an enevitable evil though.
The company i am with drive the flight and cabin crew to and from work, alas that does not help my colleagues and i but it is a sensible choice after a long night duty.
Maybe you guys could negotiate the company providing transportation for you after a night flight in the same way that the company i work for does