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Your odometer is the distance reading on your dashboard — the total your vehicle has travelled, shown in kilometres (miles for US users). It is the heartbeat of every distance-based countdown in loadmate. When your next service shows as due in 1,500 km, that figure is simply the gap between your current reading and the service mark. If your reading is out of date, the gap is wrong too — so a service can fall due without loadmate warning you in time. The good news is that you rarely have to think about it. The reading mostly keeps itself current, and loadmate only asks for a hand on the few occasions it needs one. This page explains how it stays current, and how to set it yourself when you want to.

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It mostly stays current on its own

You do not have to log the odometer as a separate chore. It comes along for the ride with the things you already do: when you log a service, complete a maintenance task, or finish a planned trip, the reading you enter — or the distance from the trip — is carried through to your main odometer for you. In everyday use, that keeps the reading roughly in step with your travels without any extra effort. Between those moments, loadmate estimates your reading for you by adding up the distance of the trips you have finished since you last entered one. It marks an estimated figure as Estimated, so you always know whether a number was measured or worked out. There is more on how that estimate works, and when loadmate nudges you to refresh it, on Odometer reminders and estimates.
loadmate only ever moves your odometer forward. If a reading comes in lower than the one already recorded, it is kept safely in your history rather than winding your current figure back. You can see how that works, and how to fix a reading that looks wrong, on Your odometer history.

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Update it directly when needed

Sometimes you will want to set the reading by hand — after a long drive you did not record as a trip, when you first set your rig up, or simply when loadmate prompts you. You do this on the Update odometer sheet. Open it from the maintenance hub (the More tab, then Service & Tasks), or tap Update straight from a reminder when one appears.
Update odometer sheet showing the current reading at the top and a new reading field with a save button.
The sheet shows your current reading at the top, then gives you two simple choices.
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Still about right?

Choose Still about right? when the figure on screen already looks correct — for example when loadmate is showing a trip-based estimate that matches your dashboard. You confirm it with a single tap on the button, which reads Confirm — still 78,234 km with your own reading in place of that example. This freshens the date on your reading without changing the number, which is all loadmate needs to know the estimate is good.
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New reading

Choose New reading to type the exact number from your dashboard. If you are entering a figure you read on an earlier day, set the Reading date underneath; a date in the future is not accepted. This records a precise reading and is the most accurate way to bring things up to date.
Whichever you choose, loadmate recalculates your distance-based countdowns straight away, so your service schedule and every task that counts down by distance reflect the new figure the next time you look. The very first time you set a rig up there is only one option, New reading, because there is nothing yet to confirm.
Looking at the odometer sheet, your current or estimated reading, and your recent history is open to everyone — free, lapsed, or exploring the demo rig. Saving an update on your own rig is a Pro feature, like the other changes you make in maintenance. The demo rig’s figures are real but fixed, so they are there to explore rather than edit.

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Where to go next

A current reading is the foundation for everything distance-based in loadmate. Once it is fresh, these pages show what it feeds into.

Your odometer history

See every reading loadmate holds, where each one came from, and how to fix one that looks wrong.

Odometer reminders and estimates

Understand when loadmate nudges you to refresh the reading, and how it estimates in between.

Set a service schedule

Set your service interval by distance, time, or whichever comes first, so loadmate can count down.

Pre-trip checklist

Confirm the odometer before a big trip so your pre-trip checks project forward from a real number.
Before your next long trip, open the maintenance hub and confirm the odometer. If the figure shown looks right, Still about right? takes a single tap — and your pre-trip checks and countdowns all work from a fresh number.