Why go direct?
When recurring freight is awarded directly to an asset carrier, the carrier can plan trucks, trailers, drivers, schedules and equipment around your business. When it goes through a non-asset provider (3PL), that provider still has to source the underlying trucking capacity.
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Brokered hand-offs
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Tender acceptance, high-volume accounts
We own the trucks
Asset-based, not a broker. Your freight moves on our 89 trucks and 120 trailers with our drivers, so the commitment is real and the price has no middle margin.
Chain of custody
One point of contact, one point of truth. The dispatcher who books your load is the one who answers about it, and the truck that picked it up is the one that delivers it.
Dry-van specialists
53ft dry van since 2013. Running one thing means tighter transit times and fewer surprises than a jack-of-all-trailers carrier.
See every mile, live
GPS on every tractor through MacroPoint, project44 and Trucker Tools. Status lands in your system, so check calls stop.
Trucks and warehouse, one roof
Storage, cross-dock and transport under one team in Elmhurst and Dallas. Stage inventory and flow it onto outbound linehaul without a second vendor.
On-time, shift after shift
99% on-time delivery over 24 months on dedicated accounts. Expedited and JIT freight is where the promise matters most.
Goldmax is Multi-Modal
Tender a load and nobody goes looking for a truck. Every service below runs on company equipment with Goldmax drivers out of our own yards in Elmhurst, IL and Dallas, TX. Pick the one that fits the load; dispatch handles the rest.
FTL & LTL
A full trailer or a few pallets, always on Goldmax equipment.
53ft dry van · Never a partner line →Warehousing
Seasonal storage and final-mile delivery for direct customers.
Separate from our lanes →Regional
One day out from Elmhurst or Dallas across nine Midwest states.
Next-day · Same driver pool →Dedicated Plant-Site
Trucks, trailers and drivers assigned to your facility, on your schedule.
Shuttle · Yard · Contract lanes →Two days to Texas, one day to the Midwest
Chicago to Dallas and Fort Worth runs daily, two days each way, and Dallas back to Chicago runs the same. Nine Midwest states are one day out of Chicago. Open a lane for the route, the equipment and what we usually carry on it.
100,000+
Loads since 2013
13,200
Loads delivered in 2026
89
Company trucks
120
Trailers
85
Drivers
Capacity you can count on
Everything a procurement team asks for on the first call, in one place. Full carrier packet, W-9, COI and safety record available on request.
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98% on-time pickup
24-month running average on dedicated accounts. The truck that backs into your dock was dispatched out of Elmhurst for your load, not found on a load board.
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99% on-time delivery
24-month running average on dedicated accounts. One carrier from your dock to theirs, so there is no handoff in the middle to lose a day in.
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1 : 2,200 claims ratio
6 cargo claims on 13,200 loads delivered in 2026. Every seal is logged at pickup and delivery, and a load lock goes in behind every load.
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Technology driven, people powered
GPS on every tractor through MacroPoint, project44 and Trucker Tools, watched by a dispatch, safety and shop team that works in one Elmhurst building.
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$250,000 cargo insurance
Cargo coverage on every load, with auto liability to match. A certificate of insurance goes out the same day you ask for it.
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Active USDOT and MC authority
USDOT 2459573 · MC 849671, authorized for-hire carrier of property; check us on FMCSA SAFER. Every driver clears our own seven-round qualification before the first load; equipment is inspected in our own shop.
→The update reaches you before the question does.
GMAT.ONE, our in-house TMS, automates 90% of freight routing, dispatch, appointment scheduling, billing, document capture and tracking. Statuses fire on their own and reach you by SMS, email or your own TMS, so you are updated 99% of the time without checking email or picking up the phone.
90%
Of the workflow automated
99%
Updates that need no call
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Logins to see your load
Live network visibility
Every truck, every load, one map. Location fused from ELD, telematics and the driver app, and pushed to MacroPoint, project44 and Trucker Tools.
Status automation
Pickup, in transit, delayed, delivered. Statuses fire themselves and notify you by SMS, email or EDI without a dispatcher lifting a finger.
Safety and compliance engine
HOS, document expiry, CSA scores and inspection alerts surfaced before they become violations, so the truck on your load is always legal to run.
Paperless billing
Rate cons, BOLs and PODs captured at the dock, read automatically and pushed to invoicing. Documents arrive the moment the trailer doors close.
Lane performance reporting
On-time %, dwell, transit time and claims by lane, sent on your schedule. The numbers your quarterly review runs on, live instead of assembled.
Customer portal
Track by order number, pull documents and tender new loads in the GMAT.ONE customer portal. A tracking link needs no login at all.
85 CDL-A professionals, qualified to our standards
Prior to us hiring a driver, we do 7 rounds of checks, and qualify them through our own criteria, to ensure he is up to our, and your standards - making sure your load is always safe. Our average driver retention is 6+ years.
We built this company to be the carrier we always wanted to hire: one that owns its equipment, keeps its word and picks up the phone.
Read our purposeTell us the lane. We answer with a truck.
Quotes come back from dispatch, not a rate engine, usually inside the hour during business hours. Spot or contract, one load or a lane.
From the yard
Tender rejections, detention, trailer pools, scorecards. Written from how we run freight, with the research cited where it exists.
Questions customers ask
Is Goldmax Carrier an asset-based carrier?
Yes. Goldmax Carrier Inc is an asset-based motor carrier headquartered in Elmhurst, IL under USDOT 2459573. We own the trucks and the trailers, the drivers are Goldmax drivers, and dispatch sits in the same building. Goldmax holds no broker authority, so a load you tender is never re-sold to another carrier.
Will my freight end up on a load board?
No. Every load moves on one of our 89 company trucks with a Goldmax driver. We have no broker authority to post it anywhere, and our high-volume accounts have had every tender accepted over the last 24 months.
What lanes does Goldmax run?
Chicago to Dallas and Fort Worth daily, two days each way, and Dallas back to Chicago the same. Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota are one day out of Chicago. Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana run as secondary lanes on request.
Can I verify the driver before pickup?
Yes. When the load is dispatched you receive the driver's name, truck and trailer numbers and a tracking link. Every tractor reports GPS through MacroPoint, project44 and Trucker Tools, so you can confirm the unit heading to your dock is ours.
What is Goldmax's claims ratio?
1 : 2,200. Six cargo claims on 13,200 loads delivered in 2026. Every seal is logged at pickup and delivery, a load lock goes in behind every load, and $250,000 in cargo insurance covers each shipment.
Do you offer warehousing in Chicago and Dallas?
Yes. We offer seasonal storage and final-mile delivery for direct customers out of our Elmhurst, IL and Dallas, TX yards, kept separate from our linehaul lanes.