Rastrac review and pricing

Rastrac fits the fleet whose inventory is not all vehicles. The platform tracks vans and trucks alongside trailers, heavy equipment, generators and other unpowered assets, with reporting intervals from 30 seconds to two minutes depending on the device and the plan. That combination rules out a good share of this market without a buyer noticing: a construction or rental operation that needs to know where forty trailers and a dozen compactors are has already walked past most vehicle-only trackers.

Longevity is the second thing it has. Rastrac has been operating since 1993, which predates the ELD mandate, the smartphone and most of its competitors. For a buyer who has been burned by a tracking vendor that was acquired or shut down mid-contract, a 30-year operating history is a real input rather than a marketing line. It also explains the interface, which is functional rather than recently redesigned, and that trade is worth seeing in a demo before you decide how much it matters.

What it does not have is a published price, and that shapes the whole evaluation. Checked on 30 September 2026, rastrac.com/pricing returns HTTP 404 and every commercial path on the site routes to a demo or contact form. The one piece of cost language is a claim that RastracFusion delivers real-time tracking, engine diagnostics and maintenance alerts for less than $1 a day. Taken literally that caps a vehicle at roughly $30 a month, which is more than double what One Step GPS publishes at $13.95, and it is a ceiling rather than an offer.

The reporting interval is the detail most buyers skip and then regret, because it is both a cost driver and an operational decision. A 30-second interval on a service van gives you arrival times you can bill against. A two-minute interval on a parked trailer is more than enough and uses a fraction of the battery and the data. Rastrac supports the range, so define it per asset type before you ask for a quote, and ask directly whether faster polling is an upcharge. RAM Tracking publishes that difference: two-minute updates on its $14.99 Lite tier, one-minute on Core, which is the clearest public illustration of what interval costs.

Hardware works differently here than at the loaner end of the market. Under the month-to-month terms, all Rastrac equipment must be purchased, and installation is available for a separate fee. So the day-one cost is a device price plus possible fitting, against One Step GPS at a $20 activation fee on loaned units. The upside is that you own what you bought and there is no non-return charge. The downside arrives if the pilot fails: returns are accepted only in new and unused condition and carry a 25% restocking fee, so devices that spent a month in a truck are not going back.

The fit narrows sharply on compliance and video. There is no native ELD and no integrated camera or driver-coaching program, so a carrier with regulated drivers is buying a second system and giving drivers a second app. That is a workable split and it is also where a rollout usually slips, because the compliance deadline sits with someone else in the business. If hours of service is in scope, settle that vendor first using our ELD compliance category and fit asset tracking around it.

What it replaces cleanly: a spreadsheet of equipment locations, a yard walk to find a trailer, and a separate consumer tracker on each asset. What it does not replace: an hours-of-service system, a camera-based safety program, or the integration layer that pushes location data into dispatch and invoicing automatically. Rastrac's connector list is narrower than the platforms built in the last decade, so confirm the specific integrations you need by name rather than assuming a marketplace exists.

Rastrac does not publish a price. Checked on 30 September 2026, rastrac.com/pricing returns HTTP 404, there are no named plan tiers anywhere on the site, and every commercial route ends at a demo request or a contact form. The only cost language published is a claim that RastracFusion delivers real-time tracking, engine diagnostics and maintenance alerts for less than $1 a day, which is an upper bound of about $30 per vehicle per month with no purchasable figure behind it. This page does not print an estimate as though it were a vendor rate.

What you can do is decide the shape of the quote before you ask for it, because every variable below is one you control. Five things drive the number:

A rate you can act on. With rastrac.com/pricing returning a 404 and no tiers published anywhere, there is no way to build a budget, test a business case or shortlist Rastrac against a priced competitor without booking a call first. For a procurement team that needs three comparable bids, that turns one vendor into a multi-week exercise. The less than $1 a day claim is marketing copy with no purchasable figure attached, and treating it as a price would be a mistake in either direction.

A clean pilot. Equipment must be purchased on month-to-month terms, and returns are accepted only in new and unused condition with a 25% restocking fee on the original device cost. So a ten-unit trial that does not work out leaves you holding ten used devices with no return route, which is the opposite of the loaner model where the units simply go back. Ask whether a paid pilot with a return allowance can be written into the order form, and get the answer before you buy hardware.

A fast exit. The cancellation clause requires 30 days' written notice and then takes effect on the final day of the month following that period, with all fees billed before then remaining payable. Depending on the day you give notice, that is between 31 and 60 days of extra billing after the decision. It is the most expensive sentence in the agreement and it sits in a document called monthly terms, which is exactly where buyers stop reading.

Compliance coverage. There is no native ELD, so a fleet with drivers under the hours-of-service rule needs a second vendor, a second device and a second driver app. That is survivable, and it changes the comparison: once you are running two systems, the bundled platforms that carry tracking and compliance together stop being obviously more expensive. Price both routes before you decide, starting from our ELD compliance category.

Video and driver coaching. No integrated camera, no footage review queue, no coaching workflow. A fleet buying tracking to defend an insurance claim or to run a funded safety program is buying the wrong product here, and the honest comparison is against Lytx or Samsara, where that work is the point of the platform and the price reflects it.

Interface polish and integration breadth. The dashboard and mobile experience were built across three decades rather than in the last five years, and the connector list is narrower than the marketplaces larger platforms publish. Neither is fatal for a yard full of trailers, and both matter if location data needs to reach your dispatch, invoicing or ERP systems automatically. Name the specific integrations you need in the demo and ask to see one working, rather than accepting a logo wall.