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- Primary Meter: This is the current vehicle meter reading, sometimes referred to as the work meter. It is the most up-to-date meter reading and is updated throughout the RTA system.
- Fuel Meter: This is the most up-to-date meter reading entered through the options in the Fuel Inventory module. This is tracked separately from the primary meter to ensure MPG figures are properly reported.
- Alternate Meter: This is the meter reading for other types meters that might be on the vehicle (e.g., hours, yards, cases). This meter has no ties to the Primary or Fuel meters. Refer to "Alternate Meters" for more information.
- Life Miles: This is the accumulated miles traveled for the life of the vehicle. The life miles can have the same or higher reading than the Primary and Fuel meters, but never a lower reading. Life miles continue to increase even though Primary meters may rollover or get reset to 0 when replaced.
- Base Miles: This is the number of Life miles the vehicle traveled prior to being tracked in the RTA system. This number doesn't change when meters are updated and/or adjusted. It's subtracted from the Life miles to ensure vehicle lifetime costs are properly reported. For example, suppose a vehicle had 50,000 miles on it before you started tracking it in RTA. After the first month, the vehicle travels 1,000 miles and incurs $250 in fuel and maintenance costs.
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- Select Fuel > Fuel Entry > Quick Fuel Entry from the RTA main menu (FFQ).
- Enter the facility number or press F1 to select a facility from the lookup list.
- Choose Yes if the prompt to enter miles/kilometers/hours only is displayed. This prompt may or may not appear, depending on how the "Enter Miles Only" switch is set (SSM, Fuel Parameters tab , switch 7); you'll be able to update the meter regardless of the setting.
- Enter the facility number and/or the vehicle number to update or press F1 to make the selection from a lookup list.
- Enter the date or press F1 to select a date from the calendar. This could be the date the reading was taken or the input date.
- Enter the new meter reading when prompted. The items you're prompted to enter depend on the settings of several switches in the Fueling Parameters (SSM, Fuel Parameters tab ). Enter or skip the entries as needed. Refer to "Fueling Parameters" and "Quick Fuel Entry" for more information if necessary.
- Choose Post to complete the entry.
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