Your odometer history

Every odometer reading loadmate holds is kept on a list, with a note of where it came from and what it is doing. Nothing is ever quietly overwritten. That means you can always look back and see how a number was arrived at — and, if a reading is wrong, put it right without losing the rest. This page shows you how to read that history and how to correct it.

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Where to find it

Each vehicle and each caravan keeps its own odometer history. Open the asset’s profile from your garage, and on the Overview tab you will see an Odometer history card showing the last few readings. Tap View history to open the full list.

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What each row tells you

Each row is more than a number. You see the distance, and just below it a short line telling you where the reading came from and what it is being used for. Where the reading came from:

• Manual update — you typed it in, or confirmed it, on the odometer sheet.
• Trip — taken from a trip you finished.
• Service — entered when you logged a service.
• Tyre change — entered when you recorded a tyre change.
• Fuel stop — entered at a fuel stop during a trip.
• Weigh-in — entered when you recorded a weigh-in.

What the reading is doing:

• Current — the reading your countdowns are using right now.
• History only — an older or backdated reading, kept for the record; it does not change your current figure.
• Estimated history — a past reading loadmate worked out from a trip, rather than one you measured.
• Correction — an entry that puts right an earlier reading that was wrong.
• Updated entry — a newer version of a reading you changed.

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Open the record behind a reading

Many rows can take you straight to the record they came from, so you can check it. Tap a reading that came from a Trip to open that trip; a Service reading opens the service record; a Weigh-in opens the weigh-in; a Tyre change opens that asset’s tyre records. A row that can be opened shows a small arrow on the right. A reading you typed in yourself is not tied to a record, so it does not open anything. And if the record a reading came from has since been deleted, the row shows Source link unavailable and simply stays put.

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Fixing a reading that looks wrong

Sometimes a reading you enter is lower than the one already saved — often an older figure you forgot to log at the time. loadmate never winds your odometer back: an older, lower reading simply sits in your history and leaves your current figure alone. It only double-checks with you when a lower reading is dated today or later, since that usually points to a typo. Then it shows a Check odometer reading message laying out both readings with their dates, so you can decide what to do. You have up to three choices:

• Correct entry — go back and fix the number you just typed. Choose this if it was simply a slip.
• Use latest reading — keep the reading already on record. loadmate fills your current figure back into the box for you.
• Fix setup reading — this appears when loadmate has estimated trip history built from your first reading that it can rebuild. It opens the setup-repair tool described next.

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When the first reading was wrong

Your very first reading is special: loadmate uses it as the starting point for the estimated trip history it works out for you. So if that first number was typed wrong, those estimates would all be off. When loadmate has built estimated trip rows from your first reading, a First reading look wrong? card appears at the top of your history, with a Fix setup reading button. Fixing the setup reading is safe. You enter the correct starting figure, and loadmate rebuilds only the estimated trip rows from it. The readings you typed yourself, and your trips, services, tyre records, fuel stops, and weigh-ins, are all left exactly as they are. loadmate shows you how many estimated rows it will rebuild before you confirm with Apply fix.

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Your caravan keeps its own history

Your caravan’s distance is its own. It might be towed by a different vehicle, and your vehicle can drive plenty of kilometres without it. So loadmate keeps a separate odometer history for the caravan, opened the same way from the caravan’s profile. When you finish a trip towing the caravan, loadmate moves the caravan’s reading forward from the caravan’s own last reading by the distance of that trip. It does not copy the tow vehicle’s number across. That keeps each one honest on its own terms.

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