Trip planning has been a part of shipping businesses for decades, but many field service businesses are beginning to realize how trip planning can save money and make the business more efficient.

Here are five reasons that trip planning is good for your field service business.

Automation: Trip planning software can help save businesses money by automating parts of the booking process, reducing manual intervention, and saving time. You can even design your system to add new projects into the path laid out for your technicians as they go from job to job.

Cost Savings: Using automated trip planning software can help businesses reduce time lost in traffic, longer than necessary trips, and time wasted going through a lot of stop signs. You can reroute your team through the places that will be easiest for them to get to where they’re going. The software can even compensate for sudden traffic issues by rerouting the driver when something pops up ahead.

Improved Efficiency: Trip planning software helps streamline the travel process and reduce errors by eliminating redundant tasks, allowing businesses to save valuable time and resources. If one of your people can do a small job on their way to the big job of the day, it can save someone else gas and time.

Enhanced Security: With trip planning software, businesses are able to manage employee itineraries securely in one place without the need to manually update information or keep track of multiple records. You’ll know where your vehicles are at all times. If one part of town has been prone to break ins or theft, you can reroute your drives around it.

Increased Visibility: Because trip planning software allows business owners to track all employee trips in one central location, it’s much easier to monitor expenditures and identify areas where costs can be reduced or more efficient solutions found. 

Trip planning software is a great tool for businesses looking to maximize their budgets and ensure their employees have safe and efficient trips when traveling for work-related activities.

For many business owners, trip planning software helps to avoid extracurricular stops that take up time. In the past, road technicians might stop for a meal, to see family, or someplace else that might take a lot of their time. With trip planning and vehicle tracking, you’ll know that your techs are on time and track. 

By taking advantage of all that this technology has to offer, businesses can enjoy improved efficiency, cost savings, enhanced security, and increased visibility when it comes to managing travel expenses — all of which adds up to major cost savings for companies large and small!