Hoopers Haulage...

Hoopers Transport is based in Cornwall in the Fraddon area. Hoopers Transport is involved in the transportation of hardcore from quarries and depots to customer sites in and around the Fraddon area. Hoopers Transport came to Gould Electronics looking for a reliable solution after disappointments with cellular coverage.

Coverage is Paramount:
Radio’s must be in service In the quarries and the remote location on route. for example: access to some customer site’s are down single track lanes. These lanes are regularly being used by several of the HGV fleet at once. A vehicle to vehicle down a narrow mile long lane is a big problem.

Gould Electronics has the perfect solution:
Rugged vehicle mounted radios allowing communications with one another and the dispatcher office. All this is made possible via Gould’s county wide MPT1327 trunk radio network.

Features used by the company include:
• Person to person calls.
• Dispatcher to person calls.
• Data messages.

Veterinary Care

Clear, on demand communication in rural areas is a challenge for any technology; for example, cellular phone coverage is sparse and un-reliable as coverage follows revenue. Few local users results in poor or no coverage

Gould Electronics on the other hand delivers telephone grade speech quality throughout the rural areas of Cornwall. The radio system is capable not only of delivering clear speech but it also offers the capability for vehicle location and calls to telephone land lines.

Penbode Veterinary Group supports the rural farming community in Cornwall. Practice Manager Ian Lorraine says “On demand communication is essential for the efficient day to day running of the practice. Often our vets are out all day and at night. Reliable communications allows us to keep in close contact offering help and support where required. Gould Electronics’ radio network offers us a grade of service at almost every location we have ever been in the county. Our clients benefit from quicker response times and we benefit from the health and safety aspect for our vets”. The radio network has a direct link to a message handling service for contact in out of hours situations.

Cornwall County Council

The system is used by Cornwall County Council’s Estates & Highways Departments as their primary system.

The 22 site MPT 1327 system delivers county-wide radio coverage with telephone-grade speech quality, it also provides telephone integration, an automatic vehicle location capability and data facilities.

This regional system was installed and is maintained by Gould Electronics. The 22 site public access system also supports other services such as Cornwall Fire Service, Doctors, Vets, Security, Taxi companies, shop watch schemes, Haulage & Waste disposal.

Shop Watch Schemes

Shoplifting costs retailers in the UK around £3 billion a year. Shop watch communication schemes help tackle the problem.

Help prevent shoplifting and credit card fraudsters from going unrecognised by circulating suspects' descriptions to other members of the scheme and the police.
In almost all shop watch schemes the police are actively involved, relying on information to apprehend suspects.

The Trunked shop watch system has the Potential to deliver county-wide radio coverage with telephone-grade speech quality, it can also provides telephone integration facilities.

We offer handsets on the Camborne / Redruth scheme from £5.00 per week on a rental basis which includes maintenance and licensing, and from £10.00 per month if the radio unit is pre-purchased.