On Time Messenger Service, Inc.

Family owned and operated out of Bensenville since 1982, now under a second generation of management, and running twenty-four hours a day.

The fleet covers the range: cars, SUVs, cargo vans, sprinters, box trucks and 24-foot straight trucks with liftgates, taking loads of up to twelve skids. In practice that means envelopes, boxes and skids all come off the same phone call, so a mixed shipping profile does not need two vendors.

Coverage is Chicago and the northwest suburbs — Elk Grove Village, Addison, Franklin Park, Schaumburg and Arlington Heights among them — with longer runs into Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky.

Services include standard same-day courier work, dock-to-dock and last-mile truck service with liftgate, hot shot and line-down runs, white glove deliveries, and healthcare and legal document work. Proof of delivery and real-time tracking are offered, and drivers are background tested.

The line-down service is the one to flag when you call. A stopped production line is a nonstop dedicated run rather than a stop on somebody’s route, and it is priced and booked differently from an ordinary same-day job.