The Express Radio Difference
You have made a decision on the brand and type of radios for your needs. The product decision was made based on a wide variety of choices; durability, reliability, life cycle cost, range, features, size, weight, duty cycle, and product experience. Now you need to choose a supplier for these products. The supplier choices are based on delivery, installation experience, life cycle cost, availability, post sale service/warranty capacity, response time, and trust. With more than 20 years experience in radio systems, more than $250,000 inventory, Motorola authorized warranty provider, a dedicated field service team and staff engineers working to ensure any problems are mitigated expediently, Express Radio is the right choice.
Our customers continue to work with us because we earn their business every day. Let’s start with our history and background to give you a base line for explaining who we are and why we do what we do. All our founders have their roots in the land mobile business from their careers at Motorola. Each spent more than 20 years in engineering and executive capacities prior to founding Express Radio. This background provides a common framework for knowing the difference between what should work and what REALLY works, while operating within our mission statement of affordable and reliable communications.
We take our mission to heart in everything we do. Your communications issues are our challenges. Knowing what you need, when, why, and how puts Express Radio into action. We design, architect, customize, and optimize with a basic goal – Meeting your needs and exceeding your expectations.
So when fear, uncertainty and doubt creep into the decision process for communications, rely on us to help you worry about one less thing.
| Hours Of Operation | |
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| Day | Hours |
| Monday - Friday | 8:30am - 5:30pm |
| Saturday & Sunday | Closed |
Express Radio, in our third decade of providing our customers the finest in 2-way business radios, offers leading national brands and the finest customer service and support. Explore our site and see what thousands of our customers have come to rely on...Bringing you the best, the best way possible
The Express Radio founder and president is Gene Fruehling, 65, a forty year veteran of the land mobile industry .His career at Motorola's Communications Sector started as an electronics engineer, becoming manager of development programs in all major product areas including mobile, portable, base station and paging. After nearly four years in Tokyo, Japan as manager of Motorola's Japanese Communications Operations, he returned to the U.S. as Vice-President and Operations Manager of a Low-Tier Strategic Business Unit which became the Radius Division, focusing on low-priced products and the distribution channels necessary to support them. In July 1987, recognizing the potential, Mr. Fruehling left Motorola to form Express Radio to actively participate in this exciting marketing revolution.
Tom Herbert, 51, General Manager, has spent more than 25 years providing communications solutions for customers in the United States and abroad for Motorola. Tom’s background in wireless communications includes customers such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, Norfolk Southern Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, White House Communications Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Policia Nacional de Colombia, and Caribineros de Chile.
Dave Knabb, 60, Director of Marketing, also held various marketing positions including Manager of Marketing for paging products during his 11 years at Motorola's Communications Sector. He was responsible for defining the MX300 portable and the BPR200 series pagers. In 1979, he joined Group 3hree (the 18th largest industrial advertising company in the country) as Copywriter and Account Executive. He started his own public relations firm in 1986 where he remained until joining Express Radio.
Steve Flaugher, 54, Director of Technology, held various engineering and manufacturing positions during his 12 years at Motorola. He was responsible for manufacturing engineering of the MX300 portable radio and for introduction of the STX trunked portable. Prior to joining Express Radio, he was part of the start up team at Noise Cancellation Technology as Director of Engineering.