Rastrac regularly updates its GPS fleet tracking platform to close gaps between what fleet managers see and what they need to act on. These four new features address specific, common problems: speeding documentation that is hard to review, temporary asset monitoring that requires manual cleanup, geofence boundaries that lack spatial context, and breadcrumb trails that show location but not behavior. Each update is available now within the Rastrac platform.
Speeding documentation has two distinct problems. The first is finding the data. The second is making it usable for coaching, compliance, or liability purposes.
The new Speed Violation Report solves both. It runs dynamically inside your browser, so you do not need to export a file just to review the results. Every speeding incident appears with the detail your team needs, including location, time, speed recorded, and the vehicle involved. The map zoom functionality lets you click directly from the report into the map view, so you can see exactly where on a route the violation occurred.
For fleet managers who need to share this data with supervisors, safety officers, or HR, the report is schedulable and delivers automatically in Microsoft Excel format. This means your weekly or monthly speeding summary arrives in your inbox without any manual steps.
Common uses for this report include:
Standard geofences are persistent boundaries built around locations your fleet regularly monitors. The Notify Me Instant Geofence serves a different, more specific purpose: temporary, one-time monitoring of a single asset.
Here is how the process works. You select any GPS-tracked asset in the platform. You draw a boundary around its current location. The system immediately begins monitoring that boundary. When the asset moves outside it, you receive an alert by email or text. The geofence then deletes itself automatically.
This feature is particularly useful in several scenarios:
Because the geofence deletes itself after triggering, there is no cleanup required and no accumulation of outdated boundaries cluttering your map view.
Geofences have always shown where a boundary exists. They now also show how large that area is, measured in acres.
This matters more than it might seem at first. For industries where area coverage is part of the job, knowing the size of a geofenced zone directly informs planning and scheduling decisions.
A few examples of where this data is useful:
The acreage figure appears directly within the geofence details in the platform. No external calculation or mapping tool is needed.
A standard breadcrumb trail shows where a vehicle traveled. Breadcrumb shading shows how it traveled.
When shading intensity varies by a configurable parameter like speed, the trail becomes a visual behavior map. Areas where a driver was moving fast appear differently from areas where they slowed down, stopped briefly, or accelerated out of a turn. You can read the route history at a glance and identify patterns that would otherwise require reviewing individual data points one by one.
This feature is particularly effective for:
Breadcrumb shading parameters are configurable, so your team can set the thresholds that match your fleet’s specific operational standards.
Q: Can the Speed Violation Report be customized for different speed thresholds?
A: Yes. Speed alert thresholds in Rastrac are configurable, so the report reflects the standards your fleet operates under. You can set different thresholds for highway driving, residential zones, or specific vehicle types. The report then captures only the incidents that exceed your defined limits, keeping the data focused on what actually matters for your operation.
Q: How is the Notify Me Instant Geofence different from a standard geofence?
A: A standard geofence is a persistent boundary you create around a location, typically for ongoing monitoring like a job site, depot, or customer address. The Notify Me Instant Geofence is designed for one-time, temporary use around a specific asset rather than a location. It triggers once, sends the alert, and then removes itself. This keeps your geofence library clean and makes it easy to set up quick monitoring without building a permanent boundary you will need to delete later.
Q: What parameters can be used to configure breadcrumb shading?
A: Speed is the primary configurable parameter for breadcrumb shading, but the system supports other data inputs as well. Contact the Rastrac team to discuss which parameters are most relevant for your fleet’s specific monitoring needs and how to configure shading thresholds that match your operational standards.
Q: Do these features require additional hardware or a plan upgrade?
A: These features are part of the Rastrac platform and do not require new hardware. Feature availability may vary depending on your current service plan. Contact the Rastrac team at (877) 680-1188 to confirm which features are included in your subscription and whether any configuration steps are needed to activate them.
Rastrac’s platform updates are built around one consistent goal: give fleet managers accurate, actionable data without requiring extra steps to find it. The Speed Violation Report, Notify Me Instant Geofence, acreage display, and breadcrumb shading each address a specific gap between what standard GPS tracking shows and what your operation actually needs to make decisions.
Request a live demo to see these features in your fleet’s context, or reach out to the Rastrac team directly:
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