Hilton Haulage, New Zealand

Hilton Haulage’s workforce is largely mobile across a large geographic area including remote rural locations. The company uses a transport job management solution to keep track of required tasks and has visibility of truck location through an existing GPS solution.

Their existing communication system was an open channel, wide area analog linked radio network. Whilst the existing solution was reliable and served the needs of their initial business, the cost to extend this network to cover Hilton Haulage's ever-growing service area was prohibitive.

Hilton Haulage was able to leverage their existing investment in Tait radios by adding Unified Vehicle with PTToX functionality. Their drivers needed very little training on the new system as they use the radios in a similar way.

The audio is crystal clear and having near-nationwide coverage much better suits their operational requirements than small localised repeaters.

A bonus value-added feature is the ability to program the radio terminals over the air. All the radios are loaded into a Tait EnableFleet radio management system, which allows Ashley Communications to add talkgroups, conventional channels, and change truck ID numbers without having to even leave the office.