HQ Xpress road freight: trucking for light, bulky cargo across Vietnam

Light, bulky cargo: the freight problem that often gets mis-charged

A carton of cushioning foam may weigh a few kilos yet be as big as a fridge. With cargo like this, the truck is full long before it reaches its weight limit. Sent through a courier or consolidated service that charges by the kilo, your cargo is usually converted to volumetric weight (length times width times height divided by a factor), and the freight comes out far higher than the real weight suggests. Light cargo is also often stacked under heavy cargo, with dented corners and crushed cartons as the result.

Foam, packaging and consumer goods businesses meet this every week: freight that is hard to budget, hired open-bed trucks, cargo arriving wet or dusty, and nobody able to answer with confidence "where is the truck, and when will it arrive?"

How HQ Xpress solves it

HQ Xpress is HQPAK's road freight brand for transport inside Vietnam. As part of a business that deals in PE foam and packaging, HQ Xpress knows what light, bulky cargo needs on a truck:

• Closed-box trucks: cargo is fully protected from rain, sun and road dust, which is essential for paper boxes, labels and finished packed goods.
• Loading by volume: the truck's space is used as fully as possible, and light cargo is not stacked under heavy cargo.
• GPS on the truck: the journey is tracked throughout; when needed, you get the truck's position and expected arrival time so your receiving warehouse can plan staff and dock doors.
• Transport on request across Vietnam: not limited to a few fixed routes; the route and truck schedule are confirmed for each order. For export shipments, the truck takes the goods to the warehouse or port you specify in Vietnam, from where they continue to international markets. HQ Xpress covers the truck leg inside Vietnam only.

Why freight per trip or per m³ suits light cargo

What bulky cargo really "consumes" is space, not weight. HQ Xpress offers two ways of charging that reflect this:

• Per trip (whole truck): suits loads that fill the truck. You know the total cost in advance, and loading more or less within the truck does not change it by the kilo.
• Per m³: suits loads smaller than a truck. Measure the volume of the packages to get the cost, with no confusing conversion factor, which makes it easy to check at delivery.

Both let purchasing and accounting budget the freight at the time of planning the packing, instead of waiting for the invoice at the end of the month.

Return-trip consolidation: fewer empty runs, lower cost

The biggest hidden cost in trucking is the empty run after a delivery. HQ Xpress actively matches cargo for the return trip, so the cost of each trip is shared rather than carried by one customer. If your pickup schedule is flexible and fits a return trip, the freight can be optimised further, so state the time window you can accept when you send your request.

Packaging and transport from one contact

This is where HQ Xpress differs from a plain trucking company. When you order HQPAK packaging, such as labels, polybags, foam and paper boxes, an HQ Xpress truck delivers it to your factory and can take your finished goods on to a warehouse, port or distributor in Vietnam. One contact for packaging coming in and finished goods going out: fewer coordination calls, fewer parties to reconcile, and an easier fit with your packing schedule.

Who it is for

• Makers of foam, packaging and cartons that regularly deliver large-volume loads to customers' factories in Vietnam.
• Consumer and household goods companies moving boxed goods from the factory to a central warehouse or distributor.
• Export goods factories that need closed-box trucks to take goods to a warehouse or port in Vietnam on time for container loading.

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