Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
297
Total Travel Cost
$16,307
24,338 miles
Avoidable Cost
$9,491
14,166 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$6,815
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
47.7 mi
$31.96 per WO
Median Excess
6.4 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
20.5%
61 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 189 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$92,146
Labor - Travel
$64,682
Mileage
$2,620
Lodging
$7,969
Airfare
$4,768
Car Rental
$4,267
Per Diem
$2,700
Meals
$0
Other
$5,142

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 112 WOs
$6,011
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 105.5 mi
Avg Excess: 80.1 mi
Total Excess: 8,972 mi
Outlier Rate: 37.5%
Reactive 185 WOs
$3,480
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 67.7 mi
Avg Excess: 28.1 mi
Total Excess: 5,194 mi
Outlier Rate: 10.3%

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
P4 162 67.8 mi 34 mi 5,513 $3,694
PC 39 108.8 mi 79.7 mi 3,110 $2,084
PSM 54 85.4 mi 52.9 mi 2,858 $1,915
P7 30 124 mi 75.2 mi 2,257 $1,512
P3 11 63.8 mi 32.2 mi 354 $237
P5 1 82.6 mi 75.2 mi 75 $50