Cutting down on idle time and working smarter, not harder, may be the solution to increasing an HVAC technician’s billable hours. According to a new report from Field Promax, only 65% of a technician’s 8.8-hour day is billable. This equates to about 5.7 hours, with the rest spent on tasks like paperwork, training, and vehicle maintenance, and another 1.13 hours on driving time not recovered through trip charges. Find out what optimizing a tech’s time and dispatching can do for your company.

Read more about Field Promax's report here.

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