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Drive-time savings calculator
Every mile between jobs is fuel burned and time not billed. Estimate how much windshield time and fuel your team loses — and what keeping techs in tighter territories would give back.
Drive miles / week
2,100
across the whole team
Windshield time / week
70 hrs
time not spent on jobs
Hours saved / year
910 hrs
at 25% tighter routing
Fuel saved / year
$17,745
27,300 fewer miles
Territory routing keeps each tech in their own area instead of crisscrossing town — the simplest way to cut the miles above.
Route by territory free →Estimates only — actual savings depend on your routes, traffic, and how territories are drawn.
Worked example
A five-technician HVAC company running six jobs per tech per day, five days a week. Stops average 14 miles apart, trucks average 30 mph across the service area, and fuel plus vehicle wear runs $0.65 per mile. Tightening territories cuts 25% of the mileage.
Inputs
- Technicians
- 5
- Jobs per day, per tech
- 6
- Avg miles between jobs
- 14 mi
- Working days per week
- 5
- Fuel + vehicle cost per mile
- $0.65
- Avg driving speed
- 30 mph
- Mileage cut from tighter territories
- 25%
Results
- Drive miles per week
- 2,100
- Windshield time per week
- 70 hrs
- Hours saved per year
- 910 hrs
- Fuel saved per year
- $17,745
- Fewer miles driven per year
- 27,300
Seventy hours a week is the equivalent of nearly two full-time technicians sitting in traffic. Cutting a quarter of that mileage returns 910 working hours and $17,745 in fuel a year — without hiring anyone or shortening a single job.
Run your own numbers in the calculator above — these figures are the tool’s output for the inputs shown.
Tight territories beat clever routing
You can only optimize the route a tech already has. The bigger lever is making sure the right tech got the job in the first place — the one who already covers that area — so nobody is dispatched across town past a closer colleague. That is what territory routing does automatically on every booking.
Map your areas in the territory map builder, or see what no-shows cost you with the no-show calculator.
Frequently asked questions
What is windshield time?
Windshield time is the time technicians spend driving between jobs rather than doing billable work. It is one of the biggest hidden costs in field service — every hour in the truck is an hour not earning, plus fuel and vehicle wear.
How do I reduce drive time for my techs?
Cluster each tech's jobs within a defined service area so they are not crossing town to reach the next stop. Territory routing assigns each booking to the rep who covers that location, which naturally keeps routes tight without a dispatcher manually juggling the board.
Is this the same as route optimization?
Not quite. Route optimization orders the stops a tech already has for the day. Territory routing decides which tech should get a job in the first place, based on where the customer is — so the routes are tight before optimization even runs.
How accurate is the calculator?
It is a planning estimate based on your inputs and a simple average-speed model. Real savings depend on your geography, traffic, and how well territories are drawn — but it is a useful way to size the opportunity.
Less windshield time. More jobs closed.
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