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Open a finished trip and you do not see a blank receipt. You see the story of the trip: where you went, how far and how long you were out, the rig you took, what you wrote down, and how it all felt. loadmate puts this together for you. It uses what was saved while you travelled and the feedback you gave when you got home. You do not assemble anything. You open the trip and read it back, like a page in a logbook you did not have to write. This page walks through each part of that story. It then covers the two things you will most often want afterwards: opening any jobs the trip left you with, and starting next year’s trip from this one. It finishes with the quickest way to share where you have been.
Reading a completed trip is free for everyone, including demo. Demo trips are read-only, so you can look around a finished demo trip without changing anything. Starting a new trip from one (Duplicate) is a Pro action.

The completed trip story

Open a finished trip from your Trips list. The top of the screen sets the scene. There is a small Completed badge and a tag naming the rig you took. A line tells you when you got back: Returned today, Returned yesterday, or Returned 6 days ago. Then comes the headline of the trip itself, the route you travelled. Below that sits a route map and the headline numbers for the whole trip.
Completed trip story showing the route map, Open in Maps button, returned date, and distance, duration, and destination stats
The three figures across the top are the quick summary of the trip:
  • Distance — how far you travelled, shown in the units you use (kilometres or miles).
  • Duration — how many days you were away.
  • Destinations — how many stops the trip had, such as “Direct”, “1 stop”, or “3 stops”.
Under the numbers, the Itinerary lists the journey in order: where you set off, any stops along the way, and where you finished, with the dates beside each one. If you wrote anything in your trip Notes, that sits here too, kept exactly as you left it.

Open in Maps

The route map at the top is a still picture of where you went. Tap Open in Maps and loadmate hands the route to your phone’s own maps app: your start, your stops, and your destination. You can then see it on a full, live map there.
loadmate does not give you turn-by-turn directions or a moving map inside the app. Open in Maps simply passes the route to the maps app you already use, where the real navigation lives.
  • Distance is the length of the route you planned and travelled, in your own units. If a trip never had a measurable distance, this row stays out of the way rather than showing a zero.
  • Duration counts the days from when you left to when you returned.
  • Destinations counts the stops on the route. A straight there-and-back reads as “Direct”. A touring loop shows the number of stops you made.
The rig you took is shown as a tag near the top, not as one of these three numbers. That way you can always see at a glance which van and tow vehicle the trip belonged to.

Your saved feedback

After a trip, loadmate asks you a gentle question: how did it go? Whatever you answered comes back here as a preview. The feeling of the trip lives alongside the route and the numbers. The preview leads with the tone you chose:
  • Smooth — nothing of concern. The trip towed the way you expected.
  • Mixed — mostly fine, with a thing or two worth noting.
  • Rough — something needed attention, or the trip felt unsettled.
Beneath the tone is a short summary, along with when you logged it. For a smooth trip it reads “Nothing to flag”. For a mixed or rough trip it tells you how many things you flagged. If you flagged anything specific, those notes appear as their own short rows, so you can see them without opening anything further. To read everything you saved, tap View full. That opens your full notes, every flagged item, and the trip context, exactly as you left it. An Edit button is there if you want to revise it. If you have not given feedback yet and a trip is still recent, this section shows a calm prompt instead of nagging you: How did this trip go? with a Log feedback action. If more time has passed and you never logged anything, it simply reads No feedback saved yet, with no prompt. For how the feedback questions work and how to fill them in, see Finish a trip and give feedback.
You do not re-enter feedback here. This is the saved copy. To change it, open it with View full and tap Edit.

Follow-up tasks from this trip

Sometimes a trip leaves you with a job to do, such as a wheel to inspect or a service to bring forward. If your feedback created one of these, it appears here under Follow-ups from this trip. Tapping the row opens the real job over in your Maintenance area. Each row is labelled “Created from trip feedback”, with a View action. An All maintenance link sits at the top of the section so you can jump to the full list.
loadmate never invents these jobs for you. A follow-up task appears here only because you chose, during feedback, to turn something into a real maintenance task. loadmate does not guess tasks from a trip, and it does not create one quietly behind your back. If you did not ask for a follow-up, none appears.
Because of that, only genuine, saved jobs ever show up here. You will never see an inspection or a tyre check that loadmate dreamed up. And if a trip left nothing to follow up on, this section simply does not appear. No empty box, no nagging line. Its absence is the good news. For what a maintenance task is and how it is tracked once it lands, see your Maintenance area through the All maintenance link.

Reuse this trip

The trips you enjoy are the ones you will want to do again. Rather than re-type every stop, you can start a fresh planned trip from a finished one.
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Open the finished trip and tap Duplicate

On the completed trip, tap Duplicate. This begins a new planned trip built from this one. Its route, its stops, the same rig, and your notes all carry across.
2

Pick the dates

A Choose new dates sheet opens. loadmate explains that it will copy the route, stops, rig, notes, and attachments. So the only thing it asks for is when you are going. You set two dates: a Start date and a Return date.
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Create the new trip

Tap Create trip and loadmate builds the new planned trip and opens it, ready for you to adjust anything before you travel.
You may see the words “plan a similar trip” used to describe this. That is exactly what Duplicate does. The button you tap is labelled Duplicate.
Duplicate is a Pro action. The “Choose new dates” sheet opens for everyone so you can see how it works, but creating the new trip needs Pro. On a demo trip, loadmate shows the demo read-only message instead, because demo data cannot be changed.

Quick share

From a finished trip you can send a quick, plain-text summary to family or friends: where you went and when. Tap Share and your phone’s normal share options open, with the route and the dates ready to go. Send it by message, email, or anywhere else you share things.
This plain-text Share is free for everyone. There is no Pro gate on it.
loadmate is also building two fuller ways to pass a trip on — a tidy picture card and a PDF — but they are not ready to open in this version yet. See Share a trip summary for what works today and what is coming.
Try it now: open a finished trip, tap Open in Maps to see the route on a full map, then scroll down to read back your saved feedback. If it was a good one, tap Duplicate to start next season’s trip from it.
For the trip overview and your travel stats over time, see Your trips and stats. To revisit how the feedback questions are asked, see Finish a trip and give feedback. To see how this trip’s distance moved your odometer forward, see Your odometer history.