Hira Singh Transport is a road transport company with its head office in Boisar, Maharashtra, and branch offices in Vapi, Vasai, Bhayandar and, in Ahmedabad, at Kathwada and Bakrol. It moves full truck loads and part loads, delivers parcels, runs pickup services and manages warehouses, with its work concentrated on the industrial belt from Mumbai and Pune up through Gujarat. Meta Mint designed and built its website.
The challenge
Most of the company's customers are factories and traders along the western corridor: units in Umbergaon, Silvassa, Daman and Vapi, warehouses in Bhiwandi and Taloja, industrial estates at Vatva, Naroda and Chhatral. A shipper in one of these towns wants to know straight away whether Hira Singh picks up there, which office is nearest and how to get a truck booked for a particular origin and destination.
Because the work is truck-load freight rather than retail parcels, an enquiry has to capture where the goods start, where they are going and what the material is, so the office can respond without a long back-and-forth. Customers who have already booked need a way to check a consignment without phoning the branch.
Our solution
The website Meta Mint built puts the company's service area and its booking request up front, with a separate page for each part of the business.
- Named pickup towns. The homepage lists the Gujarat and Maharashtra towns the company serves, from Umbergaon and Surat to Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune, together with its wider pickup regions of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and the south route.
- Truck-load booking form. A “Book A Truck Load” pop-up, available across the site, asks for name, phone, email, origin, destination and material details and sends the request to the office.
- Online tracking. A dedicated tracking page lets a customer enter a tracking number to look up a consignment.
- Branch directory. The branch page lists the Boisar head office and each branch, so a customer can pick the closest office.
- Fleet gallery. Photographs captioned by vehicle type, such as 20 ft open-body trucks, 45 ft trailers and 70 ft container-body trucks, show the equipment on offer.
- Call and WhatsApp buttons. Click-to-call numbers and a WhatsApp link give a direct line to the office from any page.
How we delivered it
The site is a Laravel application with a Bootstrap front end, and its booking and tracking forms carry Laravel's CSRF protection. Pages sit at readable addresses such as /services, /branch and /online-tracking, alongside a clients page and a blog. It is served over HTTPS behind Cloudflare.
Built with
- Laravel
- PHP
- Bootstrap
