Lapis Meter for the iPhone User`s Manual
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1. Illustration 12 Monday Leaving Home Once you arrive at your first destination work you have traveled 45 distance units from home The example odometer reading on your vehicle is now 60045 Adjust the wheels on the odometer face of Lapis Meter to reflect this as shown in illustration 13 Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 50 of 74 In the USA travel to your primary place of work is not considered necessarily tax deductible You should consult your tax person for your particular situation For this example the trip is not special It is considered personal travel Set the Why we made this trip to Personal Travel The Type of travel is Misc The Place we went to is Work Final Stop nena Why homini oe ce ee O Illustration 13 Arrive Work Setting Why Type Place Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 52 of 74 Press the button to set the Why Type Place and distance for this leg of your trip Final Stop LE nal bees YES Illustration 14 Monday Way Point 1 Completed Press the Home button to put Lapis Meter in the background and continue using your iPhone as you would normally during your time at work When you are ready to drive home start Lapis Meter again either from the running background image or by pressing the Lapis Meter icon Again verify your odometer is correct and drive home When you arrive at home the Why and Type have not changed2. You may do this trip on Tuesdays and Thursdays while doing a similar trip on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays The similar trip would be without the fuel stop except on Fridays when you prepare for the weekend by again stoping for fuel and without the stop for classes or coffee Your Monday Wednesday trips then look like this e Starting from Home Travel to work Travel to home Your Friday trip then looks like this Starting from Home Travel to work Travel to Petite Priced Petrol for fuel Travel to coffee shop Travel to home The example we ll create then will follow a week s worth of travel This is shown on the following page by day Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 46 of 74 Day of Trips Distance Week total on last line Monday e Starting from Home e 0 Travel to work e 45 Travel to home 45 90 Tuesday e Starting from Home e 0 Travel to Petite Priced Petrol for fuel e 10 Travel to work e 60 Travel to school for class 15 Travel to coffee shop e 6 Travel to home e 39 130 Wednesday e Starting from Home e 0 Travel to work 45 Travel to home e 45 90 Thursday e Starting from Home e 0 Travel to Petite Priced Petrol for fuel e 10 Travel to work e 60 Travel to school for class e 15 Travel to coffee shop e 6 Travel to home e 39 130 Friday e Starting from Home e 0 Travel to work 45 Travel to Petite Priced Petrol for fuel e 60 Travel to coffee shop 21 Travel
3. so simply select the Place button and move the slider until Home is shown in the Place line Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 54 of 74 Adjust the odometer to show the current reading from the vehicle s odometer In our example it would be 60090 Carrier gt Final Stop a GERE Why 5 604504504604 OH 6EH OH OHIO ug nn Illustration 15 Arrive Home Adjust Odometer Set Place This time press the button You will be presented with an Email dialog view Enter the email address you want to send the data to and press the Send button You can enter any notes you wish after the Notes indicator found on the last line of the CSV data shown Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 56 of 74 Subject Lapis Meter Prius 201106077 Reference Number Starting Odometer Vehicle Place Purpose Type Odometer Waypoint Distance Total Distance Fuel Quantity Fuel Cost Fuel Distance Notes 20110607T014438 60000 Prius Work P ersonal Travel Misc 0000060045 45 20110607T015216 0000060045 Prius Home Personal Travel Misc 0000060090 45 90 Notes Illustration 16 Monday Final Stop Once the data is sent Lapis Meter returns to main screen Press the Home button and continue using your iPhone normally Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 58 of 74 Tuesday Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 60 of 74 Wednesday First we verify the odometer reading Since we have traveled 45 dista
4. 21 48 Notes Lunch with Mom Sent from my iPhone Spreadsheet Example B G D E F G H l J K L M 1 Starting Odometer Vehicle Place Purpose Type Odometer Waypoint Distance Total Distance Fuel Quantity Fuel Cost Fuel Distance Notes 2 63140 Prius COSTCO Personal Travel Fuel 63149 9 7 745 3 879 3 63149 Prius Wood Ranch Personal Travel Misc 63164 15 4 63164 Prius Tom s Farms Personal Travel Misc 63167 3 5 63167 Prius Home Personal Travel Misc 63188 21 48 Notes Birthday lunch with Linda Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 12 of 74 Driving Categories In general you only need three pieces of information to track your mileage The vehicle you used the starting and ending distances why you are making the trip and the place you end up at Sometimes you might like to include some additional information An example might be that the why you are taking this trip is that you are getting repairs done on the vehicle You might put Repairs down as the why and if you are having your tires rotated you might put tires down as the type of repair you are having done The way that you enter information into Lapis Meter is by selecting the Vehicle why you are taking the trip the type of why if there is a modifier to the why and finally the place you are going to end up LS VE MON Vehicle Why Type Place These are exactly the four selection buttons on the main screen of Lapis Meter Vehicle Vehicles represent the vehicle ID of the individ
5. Meter User s Manual Page 4 of 74 Illustration 17 Wednesday Leaving Home seeeeeeeee xxxvii Illustration 18 Arrive Work Setting Why Type Place xxxviii Illustration 19 Wednesday Way Point 1 Completed ssssssse XXXIX Illustration 20 Arrive Home Adjust Odometer Set Place ssuussssss xl Illustration 21 Monday Final Sto ae aa xli iro TEES xli gio m xli One Way trip cjes H xlii Entera Way POM ass eu xlii Enter amp Final SOPA AAA E E ral AAA xlii Add a WN es d rr E xlii Add a Type C O ee era xlii olia cheer ee ere xlii add A elfe r xlii Waller T eas xlii Ge MOU AS PPP PRI PP A RM Sean eee es xlii A xlii juo p xlii Lapis Meter FAQs frequently asked QUEStiONS ocooccncoccccnncccccccononoccnncnnnnnconcnanancnnnnnnnnncannnnns xliii Registered Trademarks and Copyrights c cscs cccccseceeseesssescceceeeeeeesennecseeneeseeeeennenenscs xliv This Manual Is Incomplete And Preliminary Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 6 of 74 Lapis Meter What does it do Lapis Meter measured stones or mile stones is an application in t
6. Place Adjust the odometer to show the current reading from the vehicle s odometer In our example it would be This time press the button You will be presented with an Email dialog view Enter the email address you want to send the data to and press the Send button You can enter any notes you wish after the Notes indicator found on the last line of the CSV data shown Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 68 of 74 Subject Lapis Meter Prius 201106077 Reference Number Starting Odometer Vehicle Place Purpose Type Odometer Waypoint Distance Total Distance Fuel Quantity Fuel Cost Fuel Distance Notes 20110607T014438 60000 Prius Work P ersonal Travel Misc 0000060045 45 20110607T015216 0000060045 Prius Home Personal Travel Misc 0000060090 45 90 Notes Illustration 21 Monday Final Stop Once the data is sent Lapis Meter returns to main screen Press the Home button and continue using your iPhone normally Thursday Friday Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 70 of 74 One Way trip Example Enter a Way Point Enter a Final Stop Add a Why Add a Type Add a Place Add a Vehicle ID What is This section describes what a WHY TYPE and PLACE are to Lapis Meter A Why A Type A Place The destination of this leg of your trip Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 72 of 74 Lapis Meter FAQs frequently asked questions 1 What if don
7. find the button followed by the multiple response buttons las Vehicle Why Type Place These buttons are mutually exclusive and may be pressed to indicate that you wish to change the settings of the vehicle id Why Type or Place descriptions To change any of the values you first select one of the buttons shown and then use the slider found on line 9 Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 20 of 74 Line 8 On Line 8 you will find the odometer Each wheel on the odometer may be rotated up or down until the digit you desire is located in the highlighted selection bar in the middle of the odometer As you rotate a wheel the 10 digit number from line 1 will change to show you the setting you just made on the odometer Line 9 Line 9 contains the slider and information button The slider may be adjusted from the left toward the right The first entry is always to the left If you slide the slider to the farthest right position you will be indicating you wish to add to a selection setting you set on line 7 by the To add a new Place you would first select the Place button and then slide the slider knob circle all the way to the rightmost position When you do this a dialog will pop up asking you if you wish to add a new place You will have two choices YES or NO Pressing the button will display the Information page describing Lapis Meter and the S 1 G H web page with the Lapis Meter icon and S 1 G H QR image Table with Lines 1 t
8. used in the place description Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 16 of 74 Caution Notes There are a few conditions that are not allowed and you should be careful to avoid the conditions 1 Do not make a Fuel Type the The final stop does not query for fuel quantity and price 2 Do not use the comma character in the names of vehicles in the vehicle ID list Whys list Types list nor the Places list Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 18 of 74 The Lapis Meter Screen Layout Line 1 On line 1 you will find Odomtr and a 10 digit number followed by a vehicle id In the example shown the 10 digit number is 00000602127 and the vehicle id is Prius Line 2 On line 2 you will find Way Pt followed by a number that is followed by a Why description In the example shown the number is zero and the description is Personal Travel Line 3 On line 3 you will find Total followed by a number and that is followed by a Type description In the example the number is again zero and the description is Misc Line 4 On line 4 you will find the button When you have stopped at a waypoint you press the button Once you press this button the number on line 2 and 3 will change Line 5 On line 5 you will find the Place description in this example Home is the place Line 6 On line 6 you will find the button Press this button when you have reached your destination Line 7 On line 7 you will
9. Lapis Meter for the iPhone User s Manual by Software Industry amp General Hardware S 1 G H COPYRIGHT 2010 2011 Software Industry amp General Hardware S 1 G H ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 2 of 74 Table of Contents AIS Mete ERE V Mhab dogs H OOo sta reor ee t o meee URS Aetas meia tco d oe M d V ASSULITIDIOS AIN ARO AEREA dal E d Qu e edi aig t vpn ddnde V Lapis Meter Output PrOGUGIS a obra dro ebat aii vii Email EXaUple 23 cenicdesskeln fatta iter piget px clot dud unie rest e edente eet eaa tet a bes vii Spreadsheet Example eee eet bea a A re Ve eMe ATE Elo eun YI a e vai vt vii Driving d ISO ONES info ee ee Sup It Ce een viii ju DC viii MEI sud des ts boot e bd adus ela Santa Since ade Gea teeta be data fonda Sup pego el Late OG tibt qnt dua viii Type E chat Sea ee ae ee viii Place MR MED MUERE ERAT NA REIR ee re ee viii Caution NOS i n X The Lapis Meter Screen Layout een Qo Qo de REO ope DOG C fof Xi Eine NOTAE ee DROITE TTE ee xi EMS Hv cr EET xi BILE aa xi E38 RO O xi RRE O xi Eine Dust cid MT A A dae eas A SAA xi LINE Land AA xi DEUS 2 soe NO xi Eine I p CP RHET ee xii Using Lapis Meter For the First TITIO urere ror ea ad pened xiv Illustration 1 Lapis Meter Beginning Screen 44ssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ern xiv Illustration 2 Enter Number of Vehicles to track eessssssss XV Illustration 3 Keyboard appea
10. T ER ET ala Lapis Meter Query c Lapis Meter Query Do you want to add a new Types Do you want to add a new Places Add New Query Requester Views Select NO to cancel the request or YES to confirm you wish to add a Vehicle ID Why Type or Place Each of these has their own dialog views to allow you to enter additional information Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 44 of 74 Round trip Example So let us take a trip Our round trip consists of the following stops e Starting from Home Travel to Petite Priced Petrol for fuel Travel to work Travel to school for class Travel to coffee shop Travel to home If you are wondering where this trip came from it is an arbitrary selection of typical stops found in the life of a person living in North America The UK or Western Europe You might substitute Pub for coffee shop or a restaurant still the trip should be fairly familiar and common place From your home to the Petite Priced Petrol location is 10 units of distance km US Miles cm in feet light years what ever unit of distance you typically use to measure your trips From the Petite Priced Petrol location to your work is 60 units of distance From work to school is 15 units of distance From school to the coffee shop is 6 units of distance From the coffee shop to home is 39 units of distance Total round trip distance is 10 60 15 6 39 is 130 units of distance
11. ave an odometer value up to 10 digits for the odometer The Prius is the primary vehicle Press the E button in the upper left corner when you are ready to continue to the second vehicle Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 36 of 74 4 9 10 ZR 100 gt Enter Vehicle 2 Info Illustration 8 Enter Second Vehicle Information The second vehicle in this example is a Dodge Dakota with 130 506 miles on the odometer And itis NOT the primary vehicle 130506 Illustration 9 Second Vehicle Information Entered Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 38 of 74 Press the E button in the upper left corner when you are finished with your data entry M gt 9 10 o 100 ma Start Lapis Meter Illustration 10 Starting Lapis Meter After Vehicle Information Entry You have a choice to bail out of the data entry here or continue by entering the previous vehicle information into the preferences database Press the Start Lapis Meter button to continue to the working view of Lapis Meter 9 10 ZA 100 22 IU SS VEGETA Update Odo Vehicle Why Type Place Y Illustration 11 The Working Lapis Meter Screen Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 40 of 74 a 9 10 100 Gat Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Way Point Line 5 Lins 6 Final Stop Line 7 Update Odo Vehicle Why Type Place Line 8 Lines 0 The layout is designed to be useable from a one handed one t
12. eage Lapis Meter expects you to use the following steps Verify the odometer reading at the point of origin starting point e Add distance entries at each way point along the way e At the final stop make a distance entry e Send information to your email address These simple four steps are all you need to use Lapis Meter There may be a requirement to enter more information when you arrive at certain types of way points An example of this is entering the fuel quantity you obtained when you fueled up at a fuel stop Even these entries follow the same four step pattern Information will be added either before starting a trip or at a destination such as a way point and or a final destination Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 10 of 74 Lapis Meter Output Products At each final stop Lapis Meter will offer an email view allowing you to email your current information to an email address of your choice You may BCC and or CC as well Email Example Reference Number Starting Odometer Vehicle Place Purpose Type Odometer Waypoint Distance Total Distance Fuel Quantity Fuel Cost Fuel Distance Notes 20110528T133835 63140 Prius COSTCO Personal Travel Fuel 0000063149 9 7 745000 3 879000 20110528T140029 0000063149 Prius Wood Ranch Personal Travel Misc 0000063164 15 20110528T152937 0000063164 Prius Tom s Farms Personal Travel Misc 0000063167 3 20110528T163458 0000063167 Prius Home Personal Travel Misc 0000063188
13. he S 1 G H light app business series Lapis Meter is designed to assist in the automation of tracking your mileage Lapis Meter will track distance and fuel for you Multiple stops Multiple vehicles Multiple types of trips Multiple reasons for your trips Multiple Destinations Add vehicles trip types whys and places as you need them Independent of units USA or the rest of the world as long as you are consistent Track when you put fuel in your vehicle and distance unit fuel values between fuel stops e Assists you in creating a spreadsheet of your trips Assumptions A trip begins at a point of origin and makes potentially several stops before ending the trip at a final destination The final destination may be the point of origin or it may not That is a trip may be a round trip or a one way trip l c One Wav Trip gt Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 8 of 74 Round trips can be quite complex The simple round trip above shows a trip from home to school to work to a store and then a return to home Much more complex trips are possible as the example described below The Round trip could have been Home to school School to work Work to school e School to shopping Shopping to relatives Relatives to Theater Theater to Coffee Coffee to Home It does not matter how complex the route you take nor even if it is one way or round trip All that matters is how you track your mil
14. hrough 9 follows this page Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 22 of 74 Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 Line 9 3J 9 10 S 100 E u Update Odo Vehicle Why Type Place F ANNAN e Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 24 of 74 Using Lapis Meter For the First Time The first time you open Lapis Meter you will be presented with the following screen ani 9 06 2 A 1009652 o Illustration 1 Lapis Meter Beginning Screen The first thing you need to do is enter the vehicle ids of the vehicles you will be managing You may use any identifier you wish license number make model name of the vehicle anything To remain in the limited display real estate you should try to keep your identifier to less than ten characters in length You may also keep track of several vehicles The average number of vehicles per family in the USA EU and most other industrialized countries ranges from 1 7 to 2 1 You may keep track of many initially Lapis Meter assumes ten vehicles currently limited to 50 The first thing you need to do is to tell Lapis Meter how many vehicles you are going to track Press the button and you will be presented with the following screen Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 26 of 74 ZA 100 gt 4 1 Illustration 2 Enter Number of Vehicles to track When you touch the 0 in the text field yo
15. humb point of view We ll go over the layout line by line starting from the top left of the display Odomtr Ten digits representing the current Odometer of the vehicle id shown Way Pt Current distance between last way point and this way point why you made the trip Total distance since start of trip secondary reason for traveling Way Point button to press after adjusting odometer wheel and arriving at way point The place you have arrived at Final Stop button to press when you have arrived at a destination non way point Update Odo button you use to adjust the odometer when changing vehiclesl tabs to select to change Vehicle Why Type Place LARGE 10 DIGIT SPINNING WHEELS lt slider gt lt info button gt CON AWPE OM gt Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 42 of 74 When you first start Lapis Meter the primary vehicle id will show on line 1 and the saved last odometer reading will show on the odometer wheels The digital representation of the selected odometer value will show in the Odomtr display on line 1 How To If you need to enter a new Why Type Place or Vehicle ID you only need to do two steps Make certain the proper selection button has been set Line 7 Slide the information slider all the way to the right Line 9 You will be presented with one of the following requesters Lapis Meter Query Lapis Meter Query Do you want to add a new Vehicles Do you want to add a new Whys NO YES 4 E
16. nce units the example odometer reading is now Adjust the wheels to reflect this gt Carrier gt 1 25 AM SS YURI Update Odo Vehicle Ce T T TY T TAT 7T T T 5 G Hoppe v O gt Illustration 17 Wednesday Leaving Home Again for this example our travel to work from home is not a special trip so Why we made this trip is Personal Travel Type of travel is Misc and Place is set to Work Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 62 of 74 Final Stop M O Illustration 18 Arrive Work Setting Why Type Place Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 64 of 74 Press the button to set the Why Type Place and distance for this leg of your trip Carrier gt Final Stop Illustration 19 Wednesday Way Point 1 Completed Press the Home button to put Lapis Meter in the background and continue using your iPhone as you would normally during your time at work When you are ready to drive home start Lapis Meter again either from the running background image or by pressing the Lapis Meter icon Again verify your odometer is correct and drive home When you arrive at home the Why and Type have not changed so simply select the Place button and move the slider until Home is shown in the Place line Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 66 of 74 Carrier gt rro u la Vehicle Why Type Place Illustration 20 Arrive Home Adjust Odometer Set
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18. t drive one of the vehicles as the primary vehicle My odometer reading will not be consecutive with the previous value shown by Lapis Meter when select the vehicle A This is a common occurrence among both families with multiple vehicles and businesses with fleets small or large Follow the simple steps below 1 Make certain the vehicle id is showing properly as the selected vehicle 2 Adjust the odometer display by changing the spinning wheels 3 Make certain the number displayed is the number you want to use for the new odometer reading and that it matches the odometer for the vehicle id selected 4 Press the button 5 Proceed to use Lapis Meter as normal Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 74 of 74 Other light app business applications are EvenTip Pro http www s i g h com SIGH 2 EvenTipPro iPhone html http www s i g h com Registered Trademarks and Copyrights All registered trademarks belong to their respective companies Please contact the following companies for more information about their respective trademarks Apple Inc 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CA USA 95014 Software Industry amp General Hardware S 1 G H info s i g h com Place the phrase Lapis Meter query in the subject line of your email
19. t you must identify the vehicles uniquely Not so much for use by Lapis Meter but for distinguishing them in your spreadsheets To uniquely identify your vehicles Lapis Meter uses a vehicle id This Id can be anything that does not contain the character of a comma A comma is the ASCII character 44 decimal or 2C hexadecimal or Unicode character 8 44 It is usually the make or model of your vehicle Supposed you own two vehicles The first is the Flash mobile made by Torch Electric car company and the second is an old Delorian you have named Mr Fusion You may wish to use Flash as the first vehicle id and Mr Fusion as the second vehicle id You could just as easily call them auto 1 and auto 2 If you are running a fleet of vehicles you may wish to name them after the vehicle identification numbers or license plate identifications of each Why A reference to why is a reference as to why you are taking this trip It could be almost anything personal business misc travel Maintenance or almost anything Again it may not contain a comma Type A travel type is usually used to clarify the why reference If the Why is for maintenance then the type may be scheduled tires body work or misc Again no comma is allowed in the description Place The place describes the waypoint or final stop home work school doctor dentist holiday or almost anything else you wish for a description Once again a comma may not be
20. to home 15 137 Example of a work week worth of travel Fuel is obtained three times Tuesday Thursday and Friday You travel 577 distance units total and make five round trips First make certain that you have entered your vehicle id your actual vehicle id for this example and set the odometer reading for your vehicle to what ever is the actual odometer reading of your vehicle In the example below our vehicle id will be Prius and our odometer reading will be 60000 for ease of seeing how the distance units change during the example There is a video of this example on the S 1 G H WEB site at http www s i g h com SIGH 2 LapisMeter iPhoneFAQ html If you want to view the example without actually entering values Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 48 of 74 Start Lapis Meter from your iPhone At every starting location you should first verify that the odometer reading is correctly shown on our iPHone For our example this should be 60000 for the Prius vehicle id Drive to work At a safe place stop and follow the four steps e Verify the odometer reading at the point of origin starting point Add distance entries at each way point along the way Atthe final stop make a distance entry e Send information to your email address Monday When you first get into your vehicle at home you should verify the odometer reading is correct It should 60000 Carrier gt 1 25 AM Update Odo Vehicle c Y
21. u will be presented with a numeric keyboard Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 28 of 74 me 11 20 1009602 return Illustration 3 Keyboard appears In this example we will enter a two Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 30 of 74 4 11 20 100964 return Illustration 4 Entering number of vehicles to track Press the Done button in the upper left had corner and you are ready to enter your data Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 32 of 74 4 9 08 100 E Enter Vehicle 1 Info Illustration 5 First vehicle information entry Click on the Enter Vehicle 1 Info button and you will be presented with the following view al 9 09 3 100 E Illustration 6 Vehicle Information Entry View Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 34 of 74 The vehicle identifier you wish to use should be entered into the Name text field The starting odometer reading should be entered into the Odometer text field The vehicle you drive the most often is your primary vehicle If this is your primary vehicle click on the Make Primary Vehicle switch to turn on the primary vehicle indicator Lapis Meter chooses the last specified primary vehicle as THE primary vehicle You may change this indicator later inm gt 9 10 o 100 WW Illustration 7 First Vehicle Information Entered In this example the primary vehicle is a Prius and the current odometer reading of the Prius is 60 227 You may h
22. ual vehicles you use You may add or remove vehicle IDs from the vehicles list at any time You may use any string as a vehicle ID make model pet name number license VIN number etceteras Any vehicle ID that you will recognize easily Why Type Place Lapis Meter User s Manual Page 14 of 74 The next figure shows the working Lapis Meter view There are some buzz words you should know before you begin using Lapis Meter Odometer An tool used for measuring distances It is used here as an abbreviation of Odometer Display or a tool for displaying the distance measured An odometer reading in Lapis Meter is usually 10 digits long and may have leading zeros shown Sometimes abbreviated odo Waypoint An stop on a journey other than the starting point and destination point An example may be more descriptive here You start from your home base and go the store followed by a restaurant bank fuel stop and then return to your home Home is your starting and ending points The store restaurant bank amp fuel stop are waypoints Final Stop or Destination The place to which you were traveling The place you intended to be at the end of your travel Your home in the above example is both the starting point and the final stop destination Vehicle ID The average vehicle count per family in the US EU and other industrialized nations is approximately two Lapis Meter will allow you to manage your mileage for several vehicles Bu
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