Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
1,081
Total Travel Cost
$74,259
110,834 miles
Avoidable Cost
$44,768
66,818 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$29,491
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
61.8 mi
$41.41 per WO
Median Excess
6.5 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
28.5%
308 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 436 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$158,103
Labor - Travel
$108,371
Mileage
$6,545
Lodging
$14,605
Airfare
$9,991
Car Rental
$6,058
Per Diem
$5,150
Meals
$0
Other
$7,384

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 754 WOs
$37,696
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 112.1 mi
Avg Excess: 74.6 mi
Total Excess: 56,263 mi
Outlier Rate: 34.5%
Reactive 327 WOs
$7,073
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 80.5 mi
Avg Excess: 32.3 mi
Total Excess: 10,556 mi
Outlier Rate: 14.7%

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
PSM 619 119.1 mi 79.6 mi 49,284 $33,020
PC 75 131.6 mi 95 mi 7,124 $4,773
P5 47 92.1 mi 78.6 mi 3,695 $2,476
P7 121 84.1 mi 23.7 mi 2,873 $1,925
P4 185 57.5 mi 13.5 mi 2,503 $1,677
P3 34 61.3 mi 39.4 mi 1,340 $898