Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
26,152
Total Travel Cost
$2,730,902
4,075,972 miles
Avoidable Cost
$1,918,647
2,863,653 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$813,663
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
109.4 mi
$73.31 per WO
Median Excess
6.8 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
29.5%
7,718 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 10,766 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$3,716,517
Labor - Travel
$2,516,132
Mileage
$62,579
Lodging
$387,839
Airfare
$195,324
Car Rental
$102,554
Per Diem
$150,625
Meals
$202
Other
$301,263

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 17,787 WOs
$1,599,910
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 187.9 mi
Avg Excess: 134.1 mi
Total Excess: 2,387,926 mi
Outlier Rate: 35.2%
Reactive 8,365 WOs
$318,737
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 87.6 mi
Avg Excess: 56.9 mi
Total Excess: 475,727 mi
Outlier Rate: 17.3%

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
PC 11,519 198.0 mi 139.0 mi 1,601,305 $1,072,874
PSM 7,125 143.2 mi 105.1 mi 750,579 $502,888
P5 2,218 127.5 mi 109.1 mi 242,126 $162,224
P4 3,444 76.5 mi 35.8 mi 123,134 $82,500
P7 1,309 141.7 mi 91.0 mi 119,080 $79,784
P3 530 80.2 mi 51.2 mi 27,116 $18,168
P2 4 92.1 mi 74.7 mi 299 $200
P1 1 51.5 mi 0.0 mi 0 $0