As a very special holiday gift to all of our customers, Air-Trak is offering a $50 service credit for each new tracking unit added this month.

To qualify, you simply need to:

• Activate Air-Trak® service on Sprint Nextel® phone(s), Blackberry® or Air-Trak In-Vehicle unit(s) during the month of December 2006 and
• Maintain the device subscription(s) for 12 consecutive months.

In January, Air-Trak will mail a confirmation letter to all enrolled customers. After 12 months of service fees have been paid, Air-Trak will send you a cash rebate of $50 for each new tracking unit that was added in December.

$ave Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars in Service Fees

Thinking about adding five more units? Do it now, and save $250. Expanding across your entire fleet? Add 100 units and save $5000. If you're already an Air-Trak subscriber, you know what a good investment you've made. Don't miss this chance to make another smart move!

To sign up or learn more, call your Air-Trak sales associate at 1-877-Air-Trak (877-247-8725).

Cullman Electric Cooperative (CEC) is a member-owned utility in northern Alabama that provides service to about 41,000 member accounts over approximately 3,500 miles of power line. CEC field crews operate from a fleet of approximately 50 trucks.

Windstorms, tornados and hurricanes have always been a hard fact of life in northern Alabama, but the past few years have been especially devastating. In September of 2004, Hurricane Ivan left 1.3 million Alabamans without power, including about 75 percent of all CEC members. A year later, Hurricane Katrina caused almost as many outages.

"In this area, it's extremely important to be aware of approaching weather events," explains Kyle Baggett, VP of Engineering and Operations at CEC.

To tackle the problem, CEC has implemented an enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS) along with Air-Trak vehicle location and tracking on every truck in its fleet. In-vehicle hardware units provide streaming GPS data that feeds into the GIS system, and vice-versa. The system's dual-mode capability (with both cellular and satcom coverage) ensures constant tracking even in remote areas.

Safe and Speedy Outage Management

"Now we can watch the trucks move across our system live," says Baggett. "The system provides a visual display of all outages, and pinpoints the location of our vehicles in near real time on a four-panel electronic wall map that shows everything at a glance. The GPS data comes in through the Internet and flows directly into our GIS system, which feeds into dispatch and other departments. It really has improved our crew management, particularly in terms of outage management and safety."

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Cullman Electric Cooperative has implemented an enterprise GIS system that includes real-time location and tracking from Air-Trak. The system displays all power outages and pinpoints vehicle locations.

Air-Trak has always made it easy for customers to integrate real-time tracking data into enterprise and third-party applications. In fact, we provide our XML-based application programming interface (API) and a library of web services at no charge.

Now, to ensure the fastest, smoothest orientation and integration, Air-Trak is offering a new Developer Support Plan that provides high-priority technical assistance under a cost-effective, one-year contract.

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Air-Trak Enterprise Display software is an exceptionally powerful tool - but only if you know how to use it. To help you make the most of it, we've set up a online training program that includes live multimedia presentations using Webex conferencing.

Our trainers cover topics with different levels of complexity based on your individual needs. You can simply review the basics or move on to more advanced topics.

For example, you can learn how to:

• Manage your units groups and tracking properties
• Configure and use advanced geofencing
• Add custom map layers
• Generate and interpret a variety of reports
• Import and manage custom locations

Free classes are scheduled every weekday morning from 9 to 10 PST, and we're happy to schedule appointments at other times as well. Go to our support page to sign up now!

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