Direct Labour Vs Direct Labor

Direct time is the time that the mechanic spends working on the vehicle. Indirect labor is all of the supporting work that goes along with working on the vehicle. Indirect labor includes items such as clean up, filling out a vehicle work report, break time, travel time to and from the job site if the technician is a mobile technician, and vehicle refueling.
All of the items that belong to indirect labor go to support direct labor. In return the indirect labor also increases the cost to do the job as more direct labor is not being done. The overall goal is to minimize indirect labor and increase direct labor while also increasing the efficiency of the direct labor.