Book Hunter Express through Senditt.

Hunter Express, which also goes by HX, is an Australian-owned transport company, and its About page gives 1990 as the year it was founded. Today it describes a business built around the last leg of the trip for bulky and oversized goods: HX says more than 93% of its consignments are delivered straight to homes.

Its retail clients include brands selling gym equipment, home furnishings, outdoor living goods and renovation products. HX says it has almost 400 staff and drivers, plus more than 1000 people across its agency and contractor network, and that it invested early in infrastructure to support delivering bulky freight to homes.

HX describes express road freight running Australia wide, and its help pages talk about cartons, parcels and pallets travelling in its semi-trailers, trucks and linehaul vehicles, frequently caged or palletised together with other freight. It publishes a list of limited-service areas, where the sender or receiver will be contacted about pickup or delivery options, and a list of places it cannot serve at all.

Its pages rule out delivery to post office boxes, and it will not take refrigerated food, animals, or pipes and lengths over four metres.

For freight booked directly with HX, the sender decides what happens when nobody is home: the driver can leave it in a safe spot, or leave a card and take it to the nearest depot, where the receiver can arrange a redelivery or pick it up. HX's own booking process also offers a set delivery time or a three-hour window, and it tries to meet receiver requests such as retail dock bookings, after-hours drops and a call on approach.

HX's own Road Express paperwork carries a consignment note number, and that is the number its track and trace service asks for. The Track your package pop-up on its homepage takes a tracking number and runs on the TransVirtual platform, and HX's training videos walk its customers through tracking a consignment and checking it was delivered.

Book Hunter Express through Senditt and its consignment is followed in Senditt's dashboard beside every other carrier you use, with label and tracking under one login.

HX's own customers quote and book through its systems, and one-off senders without an account are pointed to a separate site, e-go.com.au. When HX takes a booking itself, it asks for each item's dead weight and its dimensions in centimetres so the right vehicle turns up, and its electronic scanners check weight and size on the way through. Hunter Express can also come up in a Senditt quote beside other carriers, so you can compare before you book.

Beyond road freight, HX runs a Specialty Fairs and Events service for exhibitions, trade fairs and conventions around Australia, including after-hours collections and offsite storage of exhibition material. Its third party logistics offer covers storage, container destuffing, pick and pack, kitting, stock control and reverse logistics, and is pitched in part at eBay and online sellers.