For brokers, forwarders and 3PLs
The marketplace for Mexico and Canada freight. Price every lane from what 2,400+ vetted carriers actually bid, then cover it from the bids that come in.
Example lanes and figures.
Look up the rate for a lane, or post the load and get bids from carriers.
Start here.Get rates, or post a load.
Marketplace
Post a load and get bids from vetted carriers.
Step 1
Post once with everything the load needs, priced against the market.
Now find the truck. There are four ways to post. A load is one shipment. A lane is freight that repeats. A potential load or lane is freight you're still quoting, so you can line up carriers before you win it. Choose the trailer: dry van, reefer, flatbed, or something more specialized. Add where it crosses the border, what's going in the trailer, and requirements like CTPAT. Block any carrier you don't want to see it. Then set your rate, with the market rate right beside it, and post.
A load is one shipment. A lane is freight that repeats. A potential load or lane is freight you're still quoting, so you can line up carriers before you win it.
Pick the trailer, from dry van and reefer to flatbed, stepdeck, RGN or conestoga, and where it crosses the border. Add what's in the trailer, like weight, commodity and packaging, plus requirements such as CTPAT, and block any carrier you don't want to see the load.
Enter your rate with the market rate for the lane right beside it, and post.
More about step 1
Trailer type and border crossing, plus what's in the load: weight, commodity, packaging, and requirements like CTPAT or hazmat. You can also block any carrier you don't want to see the posting.
Yes. Block a carrier on the posting, or mark it do-not-use once and it never sees your freight again, including loads that come in automatically from your TMS.
Then the bids come in.From carriers who run the lane.
Step 2
Your load reaches the carriers that actually run it, and you can go to them too.
So who sees it? Not everyone. The posting only goes to the carriers who will actually haul that freight: the right equipment, the border they cross, the lanes they serve. What is left is ordered by what they have actually done: the lanes they have bid and hauled, the preferences on their profile, and the trucks they have posted empty nearby. And a carrier you have marked do not use never sees your freight. When you post, carriers who fit the lane get a notification on the channel they use: WhatsApp, email, or the Cargado app. You don't have to wait for them. Cargado shows you carriers who've already run this lane. Open a profile, check their certifications and fleet, and message them directly. Bids come in on the load. Compare them side by side, chat with the carrier, and accept the one that works.
Your posting only goes to the carriers who will actually haul that freight. Cargado holds what each carrier runs: their equipment, the borders they cross, the areas they serve, and the channel they answer on.
What is left is ordered by what they have actually done: the lanes they have bid and hauled, the preferences on their profile, and the trucks they have posted empty nearby. A carrier you have marked do-not-use never sees your freight.
When you post, carriers who fit the lane get a notification on the channel they use: WhatsApp, email or the Cargado app.
See carriers who've already run it, check their certifications and fleet, and message them directly. Messages are translated between English, Spanish and French.
Compare bids side by side against the market range, chat with the carrier, and accept the one that works. Then book it with the carrier the way you normally do.
More about step 2
Only the carriers who can actually haul it: matched on equipment, the borders they cross and service areas, then ordered by what they've actually bid and hauled before. A carrier you've marked do-not-use never sees it.
Carriers join Cargado free, but only after verification, so we can be selective about who's allowed to bid on your freight.
Market rates
Price any lane from real carrier bids.
Step 1
Your customer wants a number for Monterrey to Chicago. Quote it while they're still on the phone.
Start with the rate. Enter the lane, pick the trailer, and get rates. These come from real carrier bids on Cargado, not data bought from a third party. The low end means a quarter of bids came in at or below that number. The rates are all-in and door to door, crossing included. Add your margin, and quote while your customer is still on the phone. Got an RFP with two hundred lanes? Don't look them up one at a time. Paste the lanes into Excel, and the Cargado add-in fills in low, median and high for every lane with enough bid data.
Enter the origin, destination, trailer and crossing, and get rates in seconds. The rates come from real carrier bids on Cargado, not data bought from a third party.
Monterrey, NLE Chicago, IL Dry Van (53ft)
Real carrier bids on this lane, all-in, door to door. Each point is a rolling 12-week window.
Low, median and high over the trailing 12 weeks, with a confidence score. The bids behind them are all-in and door to door, crossing included, so the range is a benchmark you can add margin to and quote from. The carrier you book confirms the actual rate.
Example lane: Monterrey, NLE → Chicago, IL, dry van. Rates in USD, trailing 12 weeks.
Paste the lanes into Excel and the Cargado add-in fills in low, median and high for every lane with enough bid data.
More about step 1
Real carrier bids placed on Cargado, all-in and door to door, shown as low, median and high over the trailing 12 weeks. It's fresh data, not bought from a third party.
The rate range only shows once there's enough bid history behind it. A thin lane still posts and still gets carriers, it just won't show a market rate until enough bids have priced it.
Step 2
Send Cargado market rates into your pricing tools through the Cargado API.
Step 3
Posting loads like this one from a TMS? Connect it, and your loads, carrier statuses and rates stay in step with Cargado.
And if your team lives in a TMS, Cargado connects to it. McLeod, Turvo, Tai and Revenova, with more on the way. Loads that match your rules post to Cargado on their own, and come off the board when they're covered. Your carrier statuses sync too, so a do-not-use carrier never sees your freight. Rates reach your pricing tools through the Cargado API. And if you run your own in-house system, we do the heavy lifting to connect it.
With McLeod, Turvo, Tai and Revenova, loads that match your posting rules go up on Cargado on their own. Carrier bids come back to the load in your TMS as quotes, and the booking goes back too. Loads come down when they're covered.
More integrations are in flight, and if you run your own in-house system we do the heavy lifting to connect it.
Your carrier statuses sync to Cargado, so a carrier you've marked do-not-use never sees your freight.
More about step 3
McLeod, Turvo, Tai and Revenova today, with more integrations in flight.
If you run your own in-house system, we do the heavy lifting to connect it.
Already in a TMS?Post and sync from there.
Whether you’re turning down Mexico and Canada freight or running it at scale, Cargado uniquely helps you quote, cover, and grow Mexico and Canada freight with confidence.
Market Rates are built from bids carriers place on Mexico and Canada lanes, refreshed weekly. See whether a carrier bid is above or below market, for one lane or a whole bid file.
Example lanes and figures.
Source capacity for every Mexico and Canada lane and equipment type without working a domestic load board, with direct access to thousands of qualified carriers.
Brokers, 3PLs and forwarders posting Mexico and Canada freight.
Trusted door-to-door and transload partners for better bids and faster booking.
Access lane-level rates based on real carrier bid data, refreshed weekly. Quote Mexico and Canada freight fast.
Cargado Market Rates is the industry's first cross-border pricing intelligence tool using real bid data.
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“Cargado Market Rates helps us quote fast, and that’s when you win it. Customers ask for a rate at 11, and by 11:30 they have it. That speed puts a smile on their faces.”
Vetted carriers bid on every load you post, from the app or straight from your TMS. Negotiate in the chat on the load, then assign the carrier where you already work.
Post from your TMS, price RFPs with the Excel Add-In, or pull rates through the API. See integrations →
Unlike a load board, Cargado lets brokers post lanes, projects, and potential freight, on top of one-off spot loads. Turn one-off coverage into repeatable capacity by consistently matching with carriers who want your freight, lanes, and border crossings.
Find fast, reliable coverage for a load in hand or one-off shipment.
Lock in rates and capacity with preferred carriers.
Line up a truck, or trucks, in hand before you win the freight, for one load or a lane's repeat or project volume. It also tests a lane that's hard to cover.
So you don’t have to build your own from scratch.
“Having a double vetting process is almost essential these days."
Post a load or lane to the Cargado marketplace and get bids from a targeted set of vetted Mexico and Canada carriers that want that freight. Match fast with the right carrier without having to call around.
Connect with the right carrier faster on even your toughest-to-cover postings. Cargado suggests vetted carriers that meet your requirements before a single bid is placed. Chat translates messages between English, Spanish, and French. Carrier chat is in beta.
Win a few Mexico lanes, prove reliability, and use it as a wedge into accounts you couldn't crack before and a way to grow the ones you already have.
Your domestic U.S. customers likely have Mexico freight they're giving to someone else or not controlling at all. Offering cross-border turns you from a domestic provider into a North American partner. Mexico freight is often production-driven volume that ships week after week.
Mexico freight might not be your customers' highest volume, but it's their most annoying. They're focused on the 80% that moves domestically and have little control over what's happening south of the border. Solve that for them and you become the one they can't replace.
Most brokers hesitate on Mexico freight. That's why starting now is your edge. While your competitors sit on the opportunity, you'll build carrier relationships, lane knowledge, and operational confidence that can't be replicated overnight.
“Mexico turned out to be the easiest division we've launched, which is ironic, because going in, I thought it would be the hardest. It's been really easy because of Cargado.”
Will HopkinsCofounder, Blackbox Logistics“Sometimes when you're first, you win. And a lot of times, especially now because the market is a little bit tighter, being first and having that market rate data hand-in-hand has allowed us to win some that we probably wouldn't have won, to be honest, in the spot world.”
Joe SaggioCOO, Steam Logistics“Just being able to get a couple more quotes than we normally would has opened up the doors. Our network has exponentially grown.”
Joe GreenVP of International Logistics, Direct Connect LogistixPricing
Pick a plan by how many loads you post and rates you look up each month.
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$849a month
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On every plan
Over your plan’s usage? Talk to sales. Starter, Team and Growth: pay monthly, quarterly or annually, with a discount for paying ahead.
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No commission. Unlimited users on every plan. Approved and posting, often within minutes.
“Within 36 hours of starting with Cargado, we moved our first Mexico load without a hitch. I was wowed with how easy it was to source the capacity.”
Will HopkinsCofounder, Blackbox Logistics
Already running Mexico freight out of Laredo, Monterrey or both? Put every office on one network of 2,400+ vetted carriers, price lanes from real carrier bids, and keep your TMS in charge. Book a 30-minute demo and we’ll walk you through it on your own lanes.
Smaller team, or new to Mexico? Plans start at $500 a month. See pricing
We check your brokerage and email you a pay link during business hours. Once you pay, your whole team can start posting.
We check your brokerage before the demo. Have your DOT# or RFC handy, then pick a time with our team.
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Brokerages are checked before they post, so carriers know who each load comes from.
Your first 10 minutes
Market Rates shows the range carriers actually bid, so every rep quotes from the same number.
Describe it, set your rate, and it goes out to vetted carriers. Or let your TMS send it.
Chat with carriers and accept the bid you want. No commission on your loads.
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Your questions and our answers about pricing, carriers, integrations, and rates.
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Contact UsPlans start at $500 a month for your whole team, not per seat. Starter is $500 a month for 25 load postings and 50 rate lookups, Team is $849 a month for 50 postings and 100 rate lookups, and Growth is $1,499 a month for 100 postings and 200 rate lookups. Enterprise is custom pricing with unlimited postings, rate lookups and users, built for established Mexico operations. Every plan includes unlimited users and Market Rates, with no commission on your loads, and carriers use the marketplace free. Over your plan's usage? Talk to sales. See all plans on the pricing page.
Every carrier in Cargado's network goes through multi-step onboarding and verification, including multiple broker references, before they can bid on your freight.
Our integrations with the FMCSA and other data sources monitor carrier safety scores continuously, not just at onboarding. If a carrier's standing changes, we know and act. Cargado takes a strong enforcement posture when any participant demonstrates behavior that's counter to our policies or to conducting business with integrity.
For compliance workflows, Cargado is designed to complement your existing internal carrier onboarding tools, not replace them. We're happy to walk through how that fits your team's process.
Yes, and for most teams it is not a heavy lift. We have working integrations with the major broker TMS platforms that can be stood up without a custom build, and for proprietary or less common systems we work through an API-based approach and scope the right starting point together. Our team sets it up with your TMS admin, with nothing for your team to install. Either way the goal is the same: reduce manual posting, keep load and carrier data in sync, and surface DNU lists and approved-carrier visibility directly in your existing workflow. Your carriers sync first, so anyone you have marked do-not-use never sees your freight. Nothing posts automatically. Every load waits in Cargado until you decide, and autoposting rules can make that call for you when you are ready, applied broadly or set lane by lane. Your TMS stays the system of record.
Market Rates are built from real carrier bids placed in our marketplace, not surveys, broker estimates, or historical averages, and they are refreshed weekly. Because the data comes from actual bids, they reflect what carriers are willing to move freight for on the lanes you're quoting.
Rates are presented as a low, mid, and high range with a confidence signal tied to bid density. On high-volume lanes, that signal is strong. When rates are thin, we’ll recommend posting a Potential spot load or dedicated lane to pull live carrier responses, which give you a more defensible number to take to your customer.
For RFPs and bulk lane pricing, the Excel Add-In lets you pull market rates for hundreds of lanes at once directly in your workbook. More on this below, or visit our Market Rates page.
The Cargado Excel Add-In lets you pull market rates for your full lane list directly in Excel without any copying, tab-switching, or manual lookups. Price hundreds of lanes in seconds and get back to customers fast with rates you are confident in.
For lanes where the confidence signal is lower, like on newer corridors, in thinner markets, or with unusual equipment, post a Potential load to pull live carrier responses and anchor your pricing with real bid data, instead of just an estimate, before you commit.
These tools were built to complement each other: The Add-In to move fast for bulk-quoting a lane list and Potential loads and lanes to validate where the stakes or uncertainty are higher.
No. Cargado runs the marketplace and does not broker freight, own assets, or process the payment between broker and carrier. Standard revenue is broker subscriptions, not brokerage margin or a transaction take-rate.
Broker workspaces are private: your postings are shown to eligible vetted carriers that match the lane and equipment, not to other brokers, and Cargado is not designed as a shipper-facing marketplace.
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Bring three lanes you quote today. We'll show you our market rates, built from real carrier bids, and the vetted carriers who would cover them. Thirty minutes, tailored to your team.
No commission or percentage on loads. The rate confirmation, onboarding, and payment stay directly between you and the carrier through your own TMS: the relationship is yours. See how a marketplace fits alongside your TMS.
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