Goulds carriers: freight, intrastate runs, private fleets
General freight is ticked by 226 of the 325 active Goulds carriers on FMCSA’s carrier census, the single most common cargo box among them. When you write to us, say whether the sale includes the trailer or just the power unit, and send the VIN off the door jamb.
Of those 325 carriers, 243 are intrastate only and 82 cross state lines, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. An intrastate truck that never left Florida still sells the same way: have the Florida title and current registration in one folder before pickup.
Sixty-one Goulds outfits are private fleets hauling their own goods, FMCSA’s census shows, from nursery owners to contractors moving their own equipment. If your truck belongs to a business, tell us whose name is on the title; the person signing it over should be that owner or someone authorised to sign for it.
Refrigerated loads
Produce, cold food and nursery stock
Thirty-seven Goulds carriers list fresh produce and 33 list refrigerated food, going by FMCSA’s carrier census. If yours is a reefer rig, send a photo of the reefer unit’s hour meter alongside the cab and frame shots, and say which unit make is mounted.
Foliage plants lead the crop list for Miami-Dade County’s 2,664 farms in USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, ahead of potted flowering plants and cut flowers and greens. Box trucks and straight trucks that run plants out of the nurseries around Goulds are trucks we buy; tell us the body length and whether a liftgate is fitted.
Motor vehicles show up as a cargo for 39 local carriers in the FMCSA census, so car haulers are part of the mix here too. For a car hauler, list the trailer’s deck configuration and whether the headache rack and ramps go with the truck.
Quarries and the cement plant north of town
Krome Quarry, a crushed-stone operation the Mine Safety and Health Administration lists 10 miles north-west of Goulds, and SDI Aggregates LLC, 10.5 miles to the south, both feed dump trucks off local roads. If your dump truck is parked at a quarry yard, give us the gate address and a phone number for whoever can let us in.
Farther north, MSHA records place the Miami Cement Plant 15.6 miles away and Epic Stoneworks, Inc., a dimension-stone quarry, at 14.8 miles. A mixer or a flatbed that worked those sites may be sitting on a contractor’s lot; we collect it from there, so you do not have to move it home first.
Construction accounts for 158 of the 1,152 jobs located in Goulds, or 13.7 percent, in the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau records 41 construction establishments. If a construction business owns the truck, have the company officer who can sign the title ready on the day of pickup.
From the Goulds yards to the FEC line and the port
Heading north-west from Goulds, the GENERAL CEMENT rail yard is 11.6 miles out, while HIALEAH (FEC) sits 18.6 miles due north, both on the North American Rail Network kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A tractor that shuttles cement or boxes between those yards can be collected from whichever yard or lot it is kept in.
PortMiami lies 7.6 miles from Goulds on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ figures, and Homestead ARB, the military installation, is 3.9 miles south. For a drayage tractor that runs port containers, tell us if it is kept inside a terminal lot so we can arrange access before we arrive.
How Goulds fleets stack up on units, miles and model year
One Goulds fleet runs 196 power units and 225 drivers, another 80 units and 80 drivers, and a third 20 units and 19 drivers, per FMCSA’s carrier census. Whether you are selling one truck or several from a fleet that size, send us a list of VINs and the yard address where each one is kept.
Across 83 Goulds carriers that report mileage to FMCSA’s carrier census, the median is 23,090 miles a truck each year. On the same census, 481 drivers work within 100 miles and 417 go farther out, so tell us the odometer reading in your first message.
FMCSA roadside inspection records from 2024-09-08 to 2026-08-26 cover 290 trucks tied to Goulds, with a median model year of 2017 and 45.9 percent ten or more model years old. Whatever year yours is, the model year, make and VIN are the first three things we need.
New carriers and the roads out of Goulds
In 2025, 39 new carriers started up in Goulds, and 29 did in 2024, by FMCSA’s carrier census. If you bought a truck to start your own authority and now want to sell it, bring the title in your name or your company’s, plus the bill of sale from when you bought it.
Goulds has 11 bridges on the Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory, and a tractor-trailer meets no load posting and no clearance below 14 feet on any of them. Our carrier can reach a tractor-trailer parked anywhere in town, so give us the street address and say whether the truck sits in a driveway, a yard or a lot.
The questions we get asked in Goulds
- Can you pick up a dump truck that’s still sitting at Krome Quarry instead of in Goulds itself?Krome Quarry is 10 miles north-west of Goulds on Mine Safety and Health Administration records, and we collect a truck parked there or at any other quarry yard. Send the gate address and the name of whoever can open it.
- Is a produce reefer working out of south Miami-Dade something you’ll take?Fresh produce is listed by 37 Goulds carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and refrigerated trucks like theirs are ones we purchase. Send photos of the reefer unit, the cab and the frame, along with the VIN.
- Selling a Goulds contractor’s company-titled truck: who signs and what goes with it?County Business Patterns from the Census Bureau counts 41 construction establishments in Goulds, and for any company-owned truck we need the title in the company’s name and a signature from someone authorised to sign for the business. The current Florida registration should travel with the title on pickup day.