Lost in Transit | Whitepaper by Tern: Why the Smallest Missed Turn Could Cost Millions
Authors: Kris Behsman + Ian Lenhart – April 21, 2025
A quiet inefficiency is eroding the bottom line of transportation fleets – and it’s hiding in plain sight.
It happens thousands of times a day. A missed turn. A reroute. A brief moment of signal loss. For a delivery driver, it’s a minor hiccup. For a national fleet, it’s a multi-million-dollar drain.
In our white paper, Lost in Transit: The Real Cost of Missed Turns, we explore a silent culprit behind rising costs in logistics and delivery: navigational inefficiency. What starts as a 3-minute delay ripples into fuel waste, wage inflation, and excess emissions – multiplied across thousands of vehicles.
And it’s not just about urban canyons or tunnels. As modern fleets become increasingly dependent on GPS for real-time routing, the fragility of satellite-based navigation is evolving into a material business risk. Even a 0.4% error rate can have outsized operational consequences at scale.
How to boost operational efficiency, increase profitability, and reduce your carbon footprint.
This paper doesn’t just diagnose the problem, it offers a path forward. Inside, we explore the growing case for IDPS™, a resilient, infrastructure-free navigation technology that reduces missed turns, improves ETA reliability, and cuts carbon emissions, all without satellites.
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Because once you see the numbers, you’ll never think of a missed turn the same way again.