DISPATCHpatrol call-off cost calculator

What does a driver call-off cost your team?

Every call-off pulls your dispatchers into phone calls, reroutes, and reprinted route sheets. Enter your own numbers to see how much staff time that adds up to over a school year, and what it looks like if each one takes less time to handle.

Your district's numbers

Buses in your fleet

Used to show the cost per bus.

Call-offs and breakdowns per week

Count anything that forces a same-day route change.

Minutes to handle each one today

Phone calls, rerouting, reprinting sheets, and confirming with the driver.

min

Staff pulled in per call-off

Dispatchers, office staff, or supervisors who get involved.

Hourly cost per staff member

Wages plus benefits. Use your district's own figure.

School weeks per year

A 180-day year is 36 weeks.

Minutes per call-off with real-time dispatch

Your estimate

This is your number, not a BusBoss figure. Set it to whatever you think is realistic for your team.

min

Your estimate

Staff time on call-offs today

0 hrs/yr$0

At your real-time dispatch estimate

0 hrs/yr$0

Staff time you could put back each year

0 hours, about $0 per bus

Your estimate isn't lower than today's time, so there's nothing to recover yet.

This estimate uses only the numbers you enter. It counts staff time spent handling call-offs and leaves out everything else, such as fuel, overtime rules, and parent calls. It is not a guarantee of savings.

See it on a setup like yours

Tell us a little about your district and we'll set up a free 20-minute demo. Bring the estimate you just ran and we'll look at where the time goes on your call-off mornings.

Your estimate from above

0 staff hours a year you could put back

In the demo, we'll show you

A driver call-off handled live, from the dispatch desk to the driver's ROUTEpatrol tablet
How same-day changes stay separate from your master BusBoss routes
How it connects with your student information system and GPS provider

Rather talk now? Call (866) 740-8994.

Where DISPATCHpatrol fits

DISPATCHpatrol is browser-based dispatch software for school transportation teams. When a driver calls off or a bus goes out of service, your dispatcher adjusts the day's routes in real time and sends the change to the driver's ROUTEpatrol tablet. Same-day changes never alter your master BusBoss routes.

It connects with student information systems including PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, and Tyler SIS, and with GPS vendors including Zonar, Synovia, Samsara, and Geotab.

Starting values (editor only, hidden on the live page)

These pre-fill the calculator boxes. Click a number to change it. Numbers only.

Buses:
60
Call-offs per week:
5
Minutes per call-off today:
45
Staff per call-off:
2
Hourly cost ($):
32
School weeks:
36
Minutes with real-time dispatch:
15