A method of tracking usage of an industrial vehicle, the method comprising: providing a user interface associated with a server application that enables a user to: select and/or identify a type of hour meter as a customized hydraulic meter, a customized usage hour meter, or a customized travel hour meter; select configuration data, wherein the configuration data includes at least one rule that is based on inputs selected from a user interface that indicates when the hour meter accumulates usage measurements of a control module on an industrial vehicle; and select and/or otherwise associate hour meter settings to one or more specific vehicles and/or vehicle types, classes or logical groupings; receiving the selected and/or identified type of hour meter and the configuration data from the server application, by a transceiver installed on the industrial vehicle for receiving wirelessly communicated messages from the server application; programming hour meter settings that define when usage measurements of the control module on the associated industrial vehicle tracked by the hour meter are accumulated in accordance with at least the at least one rule of the configuration data wirelessly received from the server application; executing the hour meter by a processor on the industrial vehicle according to the configuration data to record usage of the control module by processing the at least one rule that defines hour meter data for the selected and/or identified type of hour meter measurement; and providing a reading to indicate usage of the control module. providing a user interface associated with a server application that enables a user to: select and/or identify a type of hour meter as a customized hydraulic meter, a customized usage hour meter, or a customized travel hour meter; select configuration data, wherein the configuration data includes at least one rule that is based on inputs selected from a user interface that indicates when the hour meter accumulates usage measurements of a control module on an industrial vehicle; and select and/or otherwise associate hour meter settings to one or more specific vehicles and/or vehicle types, classes or logical groupings; select and/or identify a type of hour meter as a customized hydraulic meter, a customized usage hour meter, or a customized travel hour meter; select configuration data, wherein the configuration data includes at least one rule that is based on inputs selected from a user interface that indicates when the hour meter accumulates usage measurements of a control module on an industrial vehicle; and select and/or otherwise associate hour meter settings to one or more specific vehicles and/or vehicle types, classes or logical groupings; receiving the selected and/or identified type of hour meter and the configuration data from the server application, by a transceiver installed on the industrial vehicle for receiving wirelessly communicated messages from the server application; programming hour meter settings that define when usage measurements of the control module on the associated industrial vehicle tracked by the hour meter are accumulated in accordance with at least the at least one rule of the configuration data wirelessly received from the server application; executing the hour meter by a processor on the industrial vehicle according to the configuration data to record usage of the control module by processing the at least one rule that defines hour meter data for the selected and/or identified type of hour meter measurement; and providing a reading to indicate usage of the control module. <EOS>