diff --git a/bin/pt-table-checksum b/bin/pt-table-checksum
index 4fe3f15b..2d6fa5d6 100755
--- a/bin/pt-table-checksum
+++ b/bin/pt-table-checksum
@@ -9269,7 +9269,16 @@ sub main {
    }
 
    $o->usage_or_errors();
- 
+
+
+   if ( $o->get('truncate-replicate-table') && $o->get('resume') ) {
+       die "--resume and truncate-replicate-table are mutually exclusive";
+   }
+
+   if ( $o->get('truncate-replicate-table') && !$o->get('empty-replicate-table') ) {
+       die "--resume and --no-empty-replicate-table are mutually exclusive";
+   }
+
    # ########################################################################
    # If --pid, check it first since we'll die if it already exists.
    # ########################################################################
@@ -9498,6 +9507,15 @@ sub main {
    my $update_sth; # update master_cnt and master_cnt in repl table
    my $delete_sth; # delete checksums for one db.tbl from repl table
 
+   if ( $o->get('truncate-replicate-table') ) {
+       eval {
+           $master_dbh->do("TRUNCATE TABLE $repl_table");
+       };
+       if ($EVAL_ERROR) {
+           PTDEBUG && _d( "Cannot truncate replicate table $repl_table. $EVAL_ERROR");
+       }
+   }
+
    if ( !$o->get('explain') ) {
       # #####################################################################
       # Find and connect to slaves.
@@ -12832,6 +12850,15 @@ MySQL versions that vary in their handling of trailing spaces. MySQL 5.0 and
 later all retain trailing spaces in VARCHAR, while previous versions would 
 remove them.  These differences will cause false checksum differences.
 
+=item --truncate-replicate-table
+
+Truncate the replicate table before starting the checksum.
+This parameter differs from L<--empty-replicate-table> which only deletes the rows
+for the table being checksumed when starting the checksum for that table, while 
+L<--truncate-replicate-table> will truncate the replicate table at the beginning of the 
+process and thus, all previous checksum information will be losti, even if the process
+stops due to an error.
+
 =item --user
 
 short form: -u; type: string; group: Connection
diff --git a/t/pt-table-checksum/pt-173.t b/t/pt-table-checksum/pt-173.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..37959604
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/pt-table-checksum/pt-173.t
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+BEGIN {
+   die "The PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH environment variable is not set.\n"
+      unless $ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH} && -d $ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH};
+   unshift @INC, "$ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH}/lib";
+};
+
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => 'all';
+use English qw(-no_match_vars);
+use Test::More;
+
+use PerconaTest;
+use Sandbox;
+use SqlModes;
+require "$trunk/bin/pt-table-checksum";
+
+my $dp  = new DSNParser(opts=>$dsn_opts);
+my $sb  = new Sandbox(basedir => '/tmp', DSNParser => $dp);
+my $dbh = $sb->get_dbh_for('master');
+
+if ( !$dbh ) {
+   plan skip_all => 'Cannot connect to sandbox master';
+}
+else {
+   plan tests => 4;
+}
+
+$sb->load_file('master', 't/pt-table-checksum/samples/PT-173.sql');
+# The sandbox servers run with lock_wait_timeout=3 and it's not dynamic
+# so we need to specify --set-vars innodb_lock_wait_timeout=3 else the tool will die.
+# And --max-load "" prevents waiting for status variables.
+my $master_dsn = $sb->dsn_for('master');
+my @args       = ($master_dsn, "--resume", "--truncate-replicate-table"); 
+my $output;
+my $exit_status;
+
+# Test #1 
+$output = output(
+   sub { $exit_status = pt_table_checksum::main(@args) },
+   stderr => 1,
+);
+
+isnt(
+   $exit_status,
+   0,
+   "Cannot use --resume with --truncate-replicate-table",
+);
+
+# Test #2 
+@args       = ($master_dsn, "--truncate-replicate-table"); 
+$output = output(
+   sub { $exit_status = pt_table_checksum::main(@args) },
+   stderr => 1,
+);
+
+my $row = $dbh->selectrow_arrayref('select count(*) from percona.checksums where `db` = "fake_db"');
+
+is(
+   $row->[0],
+   0,
+   "--truncate-replicate-table replicate table has been truncated",
+);
+
+# Test #3 
+$sb->load_file('master', 't/pt-table-checksum/samples/PT-173.sql');
+
+@args       = ($master_dsn, "--truncate-replicate-table", "--empty-replicate-table"); 
+$output = output(
+   sub { $exit_status = pt_table_checksum::main(@args) },
+   stderr => 1,
+);
+
+$row = $dbh->selectrow_arrayref('select count(*) from percona.checksums where `db` = "fake_db"');
+is(
+   $row->[0],
+   0,
+   "--truncate-replicate-table has precedence over --empty-replicate-table",
+);
+
+# #############################################################################
+# Done.
+# #############################################################################
+$sb->wipe_clean($dbh);
+ok($sb->ok(), "Sandbox servers") or BAIL_OUT(__FILE__ . " broke the sandbox");
+exit;
diff --git a/t/pt-table-checksum/samples/PT-173.sql b/t/pt-table-checksum/samples/PT-173.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6884d6ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/pt-table-checksum/samples/PT-173.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+-- MySQL dump 10.13  Distrib 5.7.18, for Linux (x86_64)
+--
+-- Host: 127.1    Database: percona
+-- ------------------------------------------------------
+-- Server version	5.7.18-log
+
+/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
+/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
+/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
+/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
+/*!40103 SET @OLD_TIME_ZONE=@@TIME_ZONE */;
+/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE='+00:00' */;
+/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
+/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
+/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
+/*!40111 SET @OLD_SQL_NOTES=@@SQL_NOTES, SQL_NOTES=0 */;
+
+--
+-- Table structure for table `checksums`
+--
+DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS percona;
+CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS percona;
+
+USE percona;
+
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `checksums`;
+/*!40101 SET @saved_cs_client     = @@character_set_client */;
+/*!40101 SET character_set_client = utf8 */;
+CREATE TABLE `checksums` (
+  `db` char(64) NOT NULL,
+  `tbl` char(64) NOT NULL,
+  `chunk` int(11) NOT NULL,
+  `chunk_time` float DEFAULT NULL,
+  `chunk_index` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `lower_boundary` text,
+  `upper_boundary` text,
+  `this_crc` char(40) NOT NULL,
+  `this_cnt` int(11) NOT NULL,
+  `master_crc` char(40) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `master_cnt` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
+  `ts` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+  PRIMARY KEY (`db`,`tbl`,`chunk`),
+  KEY `ts_db_tbl` (`ts`,`db`,`tbl`)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
+/*!40101 SET character_set_client = @saved_cs_client */;
+
+--
+-- Dumping data for table `checksums`
+--
+
+LOCK TABLES `checksums` WRITE;
+/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `checksums` DISABLE KEYS */;
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+/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `checksums` ENABLE KEYS */;
+UNLOCK TABLES;
+/*!40103 SET TIME_ZONE=@OLD_TIME_ZONE */;
+
+/*!40101 SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE */;
+/*!40014 SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS */;
+/*!40014 SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS */;
+/*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
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+/*!40101 SET COLLATION_CONNECTION=@OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
+/*!40111 SET SQL_NOTES=@OLD_SQL_NOTES */;
+
+-- Dump completed on 2017-07-18  5:27:15