Alternate Meter Settings

Alternate Meters

An alternate meter may be another meter such as an engine or component hour meter OR it may represent items transported by the asset such as passengers, cases, boxes, tons, yards, and pallets.

Up to 4 alternate meters can be assigned to an asset. Once they are assigned, they can be viewed in the Alternate Meter Banner in the asset file.

Alternate meters can be used to help determine when PM services are needed. For example, if the asset has a standard odometer and an hour's meter, the hours meter can be set up as an alternate meter and the PMs can be set up to be tracked by days, miles, and hours.

Setting Up Alternate Meter Types

Prior to assigning an alternate meter to an asset, the types/descriptions of alternate meters available for use need to be created.

To define the types of alternate meters available for use in asset files, follow the below steps.

1. Click on Assets in the menu.

2. Click on Settings

3. Click on Alt Meters

4. On the Alt Meter Maintenance Screen, click the New Alt Meter Button

   

5. On the added line, type in the alternate meter description/type to be available.

6. Click the check mark to save the new description.

Editing Alternate Meters

1. Click on the name of the meter you wish to update.

2. Enter the new name.

3. Click the checkmark to save.

Deleting Alternate Meters

1. Click on the trashcan located to the far right of the Alternate Meter tab you wish to delete.

2. A pop-up window will ask you to confirm> Click Delete

Adding Alternate Meters to the Vehicle

Once the alternate meter types have been set up, they can be applied into assets. An asset can have up to 4 alternate meters assigned to it.

Refer to Asset Meter Management for instructions on adding and editing alternate meters to the assets.

Meter prompts and how to change them

Fleet360 asks for meter readings when a Work Order is created or its meter is updated, and (depending on the switch) when fuel is entered. Which prompts appear on a given asset is decided by two things working together:

What this means in practice

• To stop all alternate-meter prompts for everyone, set Odometer Prompt to Yes (primary meter only) or No. There is no switch that turns alternate meter prompts off for one meter type only, and no per-asset “do not prompt” setting.

• An asset is prompted for an hour (or other alternate) meter only because that type is assigned in one of its four alternate meter slots. The prompt for one unit therefore follows the asset file: an asset with no alternate meter assigned is never asked for one. Once a slot has a type it can be changed to another type on the asset (Edit Description), but it cannot be cleared back to empty in Fleet360; if a unit genuinely has no such meter, contact RTA Support to have the slot cleared rather than deleting the meter type for the whole company.

• For the primary meter, the per-asset control is the asset’s Meter Type. Setting it to None removes the prompt for that asset but also stops meter-based (Miles/Hours) PM intervals and odometer-based reporting for it. Refer to Asset Management Tab.

• Days Between Odometer Updates only changes how often the primary meter is required (0 = every time); it does not affect alternate meter prompts, and an asset whose primary meter has never been updated is always required.