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. TERN’s white paper exposes how.

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 TERN’s 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.

TERN’s white 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.

Want to read the full TERN white paper? Request a copy by emailing us.

Because once you see the numbers, you’ll never think of a missed turn the same way again.