Finding a work-family balance can be difficult, not least if one has children. For parents with a disabled child, the extra childcare responsibilities might impinge on their working hours. This study investigates specifically whether one area of childcare – transport – can affect parents’ work situation. Using survey data, parents of non-disabled children are compared to those of disabled children (divided into two groups depending on wheelchair use). The paper investigates whether there is a connection between the parents’ experienced travel burden and employment status, and whether this differs depending on the child’s disability status as well as other individual and family characteristics such as the child’s age and the responding parent’s sex. The results suggest that there is a difference between parents with and without a disabled child regarding experienced travel burden, but that other factors, such as parents’ sex, might also be more important in explaining parents’ employment status.