Travel & Margin Analysis

Quantify excess travel cost and identify optimization opportunities across your field service operation

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WOs Analyzed
14,629
Total Travel Cost
$1,280,904
1,911,797 miles
Avoidable Cost
$940,034
1,403,035 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$341,758
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
95.8 mi
$64.20 per WO
Median Excess
6.5 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
27.5%
4,028 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 5,350 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$1,750,698
Labor - Travel
$1,139,852
Mileage
$54,061
Lodging
$186,244
Airfare
$80,151
Car Rental
$52,647
Per Diem
$73,025
Meals
$458
Other
$164,260

Schedulable vs Reactive — Where Can You Optimize?

Planned/PM work is schedulable — excess travel here is the most actionable. Reactive work has urgency constraints.

Planned 10,128 WOs
$776,594
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 150.4 mi
Avg Excess: 114.3 mi
Total Excess: 1,159,095 mi
Outlier Rate: 31.9%
Reactive 4,501 WOs
$163,440
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 86.3 mi
Avg Excess: 54.2 mi
Total Excess: 243,940 mi
Outlier Rate: 17.7%

Monthly Travel Cost Trend

Cost by Priority

PSM/PC (planned) priorities should have the lowest excess — they have the most scheduling flexibility.

PriorityWOsAvg ActualAvg ExcessTotal Excess MilesAvoidable CostExcess Distribution
PC 6,434 142.6 mi 108.1 mi 695,504 $465,988
PSM 3,971 140.2 mi 105.4 mi 419,789 $281,259
P5 1,233 123.3 mi 106 mi 130,685 $87,559
P4 1,902 82.9 mi 41.3 mi 78,485 $52,585
P7 805 131.1 mi 80.6 mi 64,939 $43,509
P3 279 78.3 mi 48.2 mi 13,439 $9,004
P2 2 99.2 mi 85.9 mi 172 $115