Equipment hour-meter excess review
Compare start and end readings from one unchanged hour meter with an agreed whole-period allowance. Keep excess usage already billed out of the next review.
Free to use · Fictional examples · Local calculationReview entered records
One equipment item, one unchanged decimal-hour meter and one verified hire period. Readings and hour quantities use up to two decimal places, not hours:minutes. Enter the verified total allowance directly; no daily allowance is assumed.
Confirm the scope, then run the review.
Worked example: usage differs from hire duration
Fictional readings rise from 1200.00 to 1227.50 decimal hours, giving 27.50 operating hours. A separately agreed 24-hour allowance leaves 3.50 excess hours. If 1.00 of those hours was already invoiced,2.50 hours remain for review. At a fictional AUD 40/hour, that portion is AUD 100 before any separately verified tax.
A reading ending in .50 represents half an hour, not 50 minutes. A machine held for three days does not prove 24 operating hours or an eight-hour daily allowance.
Trace the number to the same counter
Match the equipment and meter serial/reference in the source handover records before subtracting the readings. This page does not inspect photographs or validate the records. It rejects an end reading below the start instead of guessing rollover, replacement, reset or damage. A nondecreasing pair can still be wrong, so matching arithmetic is not verification.
Usage equals end minus start. Excess is the larger of usage minus the entered allowance or zero. Subtract only excess hours already billed for the same item and period; a value greater than total excess is rejected. Multiply the remainder by the entered rate and round half up to cents once.
Keep hire charges and adjustments separate
An Australian supplier’s published dry-hire terms describe additional hours charged from an hour meter. They do not establish the allowance or price for your hire. This review uses your verified whole-period figures, not a supplier tariff, a daily-rate assumption or an entitlement decision.
Base hire, weekly caps, fuel, delivery, downtime, stand-downs, repairs, deposits and damage charges are excluded. Do not compare the usage-only result with an all-in invoice. No credit, refund or new charge is authorised by a difference; resolve it against the actual schedule and prior invoices.
Verify before preparing a document
Keep the source readings, equipment reference and hire schedule with your working record. Enter only independently approved new usage in a customer document; do not invoice the base hire or previously billed excess again.
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Sources and scope
Scraper Hire Australia’s published terms, clause 30.1(d), provide a concrete hour-meter charging workflow. The older dated document is context, not a current quote or default rate.
Sources and fictional examples reviewed 6 November 2026.