New Maintenance Metrics Now Live!

This  past Monday, we activated thirty new Maintenance-related metrics. These metrics were developed based on feedback from executives at Bison Transport, SLH Transport and, Prime. Please consider these metrics to be officially in Beta mode. Both the data survey (including descriptions) will be reviewed regularly based on feedback from our users, both online and Best Practice Group members. For most Best Practice Group Members, six of these metrics do not require any further data.

Here is a full list of all the metrics:

• Parts Inventory Turnover
• Tire Expense Average per Tractor
• Tire Expense Average per Trailer
• Tire Expense per Mile (Labor and Product)
• Maintenance Expense per Truck
• Maintenance Expense per Trailer
• Total Accident Expense per Truck
• Total Accident Expense per Trailer
• Total Accident Expense per Mile
• PM Compliance
• Truck Accident Damage to Maintenance Ratio (%)
• Trailer Accident Damage to Maintenance Ratio (%)
• Tractor Maintenance (Cost per Mile)
• Trailer Maintenance (% of Revenue)
• Breakdown – Downtime Aging (Average # of Days from Call to Roll)
• External Maintenance Expense – Tractors (per Mile) – Available with existing BPG Data
• External Maintenance Expense – Trailers (per Mile) – – Available with existing BPG Data
• Breakdowns per Million Miles
• Technician Productivity
• Technician Efficiency
• Technician Proficiency
• Parts Expense Average per Tractor –  Available with existing BPG Data
• Parts Expense Average per Trailer – – Available with existing BPG Data
• Average Technician Expense per HourMaintenance Metrics 10_01_2017
• Maintenance Admin Overhead (% of Billed/Allocation Maintenance Expense)
• Technician – (Average Wages & Benefit Expense per Technician per Year)
• Internal / External Maintenance Ratio (%) – – Available with existing BPG Data
• Production Hours per Bay
• Aging of Warranty Receivables
• Average Monthly Downtime per Truck (Hours)
• Retail Shop Revenue (as % of Total Shop Labor)
• Total Warranty Recovery (as a % of Maintenance Expense) – – Available with existing BPG Data

As always with new metrics, these new data points, descriptions and, formulas will generate discussion among members. We are committed to reviewing this metrics regularly, adding to descriptions and adjusting the formulas if required.

To review the additional data requirements in detail, please download this excel file (which can be completed separately from your existing submissions). If you have capability to report your data via API, please contact us to review the inGauge API developer documentation.