Teletrac released Fleet Director 8.5 with a number of features and updates.


Managers can now improve critical profit-and-loss factors, such as fuel consumption and safety performance, by using new trending analytics in Fleet Director 8.5 to instantly spot performance peaks and valleys over any recent three-month period among nearly a dozen factors.

Selecting dates/times and any specified group of vehicles, Fleet Director 8.5 users can interactively trend variables including miles per gallon, speed violations, driver incidents such as harsh stopping and hard braking, exceptions, fault codes, utilization, idle time, miles driven, engine time, and travel time.

Users can view data in hourly or daily increments, and also filter and search on trend reports. Six months of rolling data are instantly available, and older data can be restored for up to three years.

Fleet Director 8.5 also delivers new, Microsoft Silverlight mapping that's faster, more interactive and more detailed than ever. Dispatchers can now track vehicles more easily in unfamiliar locales by rotating maps' orientation in "bird's eye" view offering realistic perspectives on streets and road signs.

Fleet Director 8.5 gives users other advantages, such as highly customizable self-service fleet alerts. Users can now set alerts via the Web, which are configurable for one or all vehicles.

Users can individually set each type of alert for specific vehicles or subfleets. Watch lists can now include a user-defined subfleet or group of vehicles while including or excluding specific drivers. Alerts can be sent directly to any mobile device or desktop.

Teletrac simultaneously released of its latest in-cab color terminal, featuring a QWERTY keyboard and other improvements such as predictive text for quicker, easier data and address entry.