Travel & Margin Analysis

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

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WOs Analyzed
2,118
Total Travel Cost
$66,480
99,223 miles
Avoidable Cost
$51,085
76,247 excess miles
Optimal Cost
$15,394
If closest tech always used
Avg Excess / WO
36.0 mi
$24.12 per WO
Median Excess
4.3 mi
Outlier Rate (>50mi)
8.7%
185 WOs

Actual Travel Expenses

From 416 WOs with expense data
Total Expenses
$106,590
Labor - Travel
$75,729
Mileage
$3,497
Lodging
$10,928
Airfare
$3,347
Car Rental
$2,484
Per Diem
$2,825
Meals
$0
Other
$7,780

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 590 WOs
$41,196
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 131.7 mi
Avg Excess: 104.2 mi
Total Excess: 61,486 mi
Outlier Rate: 24.9%
Reactive 1,528 WOs
$9,890
Avoidable Travel Cost
Avg Actual: 14.1 mi
Avg Excess: 9.7 mi
Total Excess: 14,761 mi
Outlier Rate: 2.5%

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 246 126.7 mi 104.2 mi 25,622 $17,167
PC 1,553 21.8 mi 15.5 mi 24,018 $16,092
P5 88 135.6 mi 130.1 mi 11,453 $7,674
P7 65 167.2 mi 128.0 mi 8,319 $5,574
P4 90 90.6 mi 47.2 mi 4,247 $2,845
P3 76 42.2 mi 34.1 mi 2,589 $1,735