Finances · updated 2026-08-08

How to read the truck gauges in Finances

The "Truck gauges" card ("Your money, read like a dashboard") turns three financial ratios into dials styled like a truck's instrument panel, colored green, amber, or red as the needle moves.

1. 1

   Profit margin

   "What you keep of every dollar." The dial runs from 0 to 100 and shows your profit margin for the selected period. It reads green at healthy margins, amber in the middle range, and red when the margin gets thin.

2. 2

   Collection tank

   "Invoiced money already in the tank." Marked E to F like a fuel gauge, it shows how much of what you invoiced has already been collected. A full tank means little or nothing is sitting unpaid.

3. 3

   Expense heat

   "Expenses share of what came in." Marked C to H like a temperature gauge, it shows expenses as a share of the money received. Cool (green) is good; a hot red needle means expenses are eating most of what came in.