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Fleet Calculators

Five tools for planning a GPS, telematics or camera rollout. Put your own numbers in — nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere.

Downtime Cost Calculator — what it costs to have vehicles off the road during a rollout, installed at your yard versus driven to a shop.
Install Time Calculator — how many working days your rollout takes, by what you are fitting, crews working, and number of sites.
Fuel Savings Calculator — what a percentage reduction in fuel burn is actually worth across your fleet per year.
Camera System Payback Calculator — how long a camera rollout takes to pay for itself against incident and claim costs.
Compliance Exposure Calculator — what violations, fines and out-of-service time are costing you in a year.

Calculator one

Downtime Cost Calculator

Every vehicle taken out of service for an install costs you whatever that vehicle earns or covers in a working day. The gap between installing at your yard and sending vehicles to a shop is usually bigger than the install quote itself.

Vehicles in the rollout

What one vehicle is worth per working day Revenue it generates, or the cost of covering the work another way. Your number, not ours.

Hours off the road per vehicle — installed at your yard

Hours off the road per vehicle — driven to a shop Include drive there, wait, and drive back.

Hours in your working day

Downtime you avoid by installing on site

Cost of downtime — installed at your yard$0

Cost of downtime — driven to a shop$0

Vehicle-days lost at your yard0

Vehicle-days lost at a shop0

This counts downtime only. It does not include the install price, hardware, or subscription — those are separate line items you should get quoted properly.

We install at your yard, terminal or jobsite. There is no shop to drive to, which is why the first number is usually the one that applies to us.

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Calculator two

Install Time Calculator

Rollout length is driven by three things: what you are fitting, how many crews are working, and how many separate sites the vehicles sit at. Mobilising to a new site costs time that does not shrink with vehicle count.

Vehicles to install

What is being fitted

Separate sites the vehicles are at

Crews working at once

Vehicles you can make available per day Often the real limit. Leave at zero if availability is not a constraint.

Estimated working days on site

Installs per crew per day at this spec0

Install days0

Mobilisation days across sites0

What is limiting the schedule—

An estimate for planning, not a quote. Upfitted work trucks, existing aftermarket wiring and crowded heavy-truck cabs all push the real number up, and we would rather tell you that before the job than during it.

Where these throughput figures come from

They are API Signal's own planning figures, based on 35 years of installs and a working average of 40–50 vehicles per day across our crews. They are not an industry standard and no one else publishes them.
Rates assume vehicles staged and ready, a normal working day, and no unusual access problems.
Half a day is added per additional site for mobilisation. Moving crews between yards is real time.
If you enter a daily availability limit lower than what the crews can install, the schedule is set by your availability, not by us.
Body-builder upfits, sealed or washdown environments, and auxiliary inputs needing the correct circuit identified per vehicle will all run slower than shown.

Tell us vehicle count, vehicle types, whether they can be staged in one place, and whether anything needs removing first. That is enough for a real schedule rather than an estimate.

Get a rollout schedule

Calculator three

Fuel Savings Calculator

Fuel is one of the largest controllable costs in a fleet. This works out what a given percentage reduction is worth on your fleet, using your mileage, your economy and your fuel price.

Vehicles in the fleet

Miles per vehicle per year

Average miles per gallon

Fuel price per gallon Use what you actually pay, including any fuel card discount.

Reduction you expect to achieve (%) Set this yourself. We will not quote a vendor figure as if it were your result.

Fuel saved per year across the fleet

Current fuel spend per year$0

Gallons burned per year0

Gallons saved per year0

Saving per vehicle per year$0

Fuel reduction comes from what you do with the data — idle time, routing, speeding, unauthorised use. Hardware on its own saves nothing. Set the percentage to what you believe you will actually act on.

Whatever platform you choose, the data is only as good as the install. Inputs on the wrong circuit produce confident, wrong numbers.

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Calculator four

Camera System Payback Calculator

Cameras earn their keep through incidents that do not become claims, and claims that do not become your fault. This works out the payback period using your own incident history rather than an industry average.

Vehicles getting cameras

Hardware plus install per vehicle One-off cost.

Subscription per vehicle per month

Incidents across the fleet per year Collisions, damage claims and disputed events from your own records.

Average cost of one incident Deductible, repair, downtime and admin time combined.

Reduction in incident cost you expect (%) Your estimate. We do not publish an exoneration or insurance-saving figure, because the ones in circulation trace back to marketing rather than evidence.

Payback period

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Up-front cost$0

Subscription per year$0

Incident cost avoided per year$0

Net position after year one$0

Net position after year three$0

Only counts incident cost. It excludes insurance premium changes, which vary by carrier and by your own loss history, and which we will not estimate for you.

Camera footage is only useful if the system is reliable. Most of the drop-offline calls we get are wiring, not hardware.

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Calculator five

Compliance Exposure Calculator

Fines are the visible cost. The out-of-service time, the re-inspection and the admin behind each violation usually add up to more. Enter your own figures from your inspection record.

Vehicles subject to inspection

Violations across the fleet per year From your own inspection reports.

Average fine per violation Use your actual figures. Penalty amounts vary by violation type and are adjusted annually, so we will not put a number here for you.

Out-of-service hours per violation

What one vehicle is worth per working day

Admin hours spent per violation

Loaded cost of an admin hour

Total exposure per year

Fines$0

Out-of-service downtime$0

Admin time$0

Cost per violation, all in$0

Cost per vehicle per year$0

This is your own exposure from your own figures. It is not a legal assessment and it does not account for CSA score effects, insurance consequences or intervention thresholds.

Telematics and cameras help with compliance only when the hardware reports reliably and the records hold up. That comes down to the install.

Talk to us about compliance hardware