For freight Brokers, 3PLs & Forwarders

The modern marketplace for domestic Canada and Canada–U.S. cross-border freight

Run all your Canada freight on one modern marketplace and leave legacy load boards behind. Cover intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. lanes with vetted recurring capacity, quote with real-time carrier-bid market rates you can defend in an RFP, in CAD or USD, English or French. Mexico is upside on the same login, whenever you want it.

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Canada coverage at scale

Source capacity for every Canada lane and equipment type with direct access to hundreds of carriers servicing Canada — intra-Canada, northbound, and southbound — with Mexico on the same login when you need it.

750+

Carriers servicing Canada

Vetted recurring capacity for your intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. spot and dedicated freight.

7,000+

Lanes

Built for the equipment nuances of dry van, reefer, open deck, and heated / protect-from-freeze loads.

100,000+

Verified carrier bids

Real-time market rates you can defend in an RFP, not stale historical averages from legacy load boards.

real bid data

Pull rate data based on real marketplace bids — the live alternative to legacy load boards

Access real-time, lane-level rates from more than 100,000 verified carrier bids. Quote your intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. freight fast, with a number you can stand behind.

Cargado Market Rates is real-time cross-border pricing intelligence built on real bid data — the live alternative to the stale posted rates from legacy load boards.

  • Spot pricing: Quote spot freight faster, even on the road with the Cargado app.
  • RFP pricing: The Excel plug-in pulls Canada–U.S. rates into an RFP in seconds.
  • Benchmark and negotiate new rates: Pull your last 90 days of freight to see where you're above market and rebid that freight through Cargado.

“It 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."

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Patty Hinojosa
VP of Mexico Sales and Operations, CargoQuotes
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Beyond transactional freight

Build relationships with consistent and spot freight

Cargado is the only marketplace where brokers can post lanes, projects, and potential freight, on top of spot loads. Turn one-off coverage into repeatable capacity by consistently matching with carriers who want your freight, lanes, and Canada–U.S. crossings like Windsor–Detroit, Lacolle, and Pacific Highway.

Spot loads

Find fast, reliable coverage for a load in hand or one-off shipment.

Dedicated lanes

Lock in rates and capacity with preferred carriers.

Cargado Marketplace

The carrier network vetted for intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. freight

So you don’t have to build your own from scratch.

  • Verification and safety checks: Through the FMCSA (U.S.) and CVOR/NSC and operating-authority records for safety standing, permits, and more.
  • Cross-border qualifications: PARS+ACI into Canada, PAPS+ACE into the U.S., CTPAT+PIP, FAST, CSA, bonded/in-bond, CARM, and CUSMA-ready paperwork.
  • Ongoing real-time monitoring: Integrations flag legal status changes, fraud risk, safety issues, and more.
  • Broker-level compliance options: Apply your own compliance requirements at the broker level before awarding freight.
  • Verified Chat profiles: With MFA-protected accounts and detailed profiles so you know who you're talking to.

“Having a double vetting process is almost essential these days."

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Kevin Sendre
Director of Full Truckload North America, Gebrüder Weiss
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Cargado Marketplace

Post once. Get multiple bids. Book instantly

Post a load or lane with your specific intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. requirements, and immediately get bids from a targeted set of vetted carriers that want that type of freight. Match fast with the right carrier without having to call around.

proactive capacity

Connect with suggested carriers even before they can bid. Message carriers in any language

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. Communicate seamlessly with instant translations in English, French, and Spanish.

Your move

Grow your brokerage

Run all your intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. freight on one modern marketplace, 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. Mexico is upside on the same login.

Grow wallet share with existing customers

Your Canadian customers have intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. freight they're either giving to someone else or running off legacy load boards. Putting it all on one modern marketplace turns you from a point solution into the marketplace they run everything through. Cross-border northbound and southbound volume ships week after week.

Become the broker they can't replace

The hardest freight to cover — a thin northbound lane out of Lacolle, a reefer that has to be protected from freeze, a southbound load through Windsor–Detroit — is often what your customers worry about most. Solve that reliably and you become the broker they can't replace. Mexico is there on the same login when they need it.

Build a competitive edge to differentiate

Legacy load boards show you posted rates; Cargado adds vetted U.S. carrier access, weekly carrier-bid market rates, and Toronto-based support they don’t have — and carriers pay no subscription, so your pool keeps growing. Move to a modern marketplace now and build the lane knowledge and carrier relationships competitors can't replicate overnight.

FAQs

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How does pricing work? What am I actually paying for?

We offer subscription plans for brokers and logistics teams at every stage of growth, from teams running mostly intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. freight to high-volume operations running dedicated lanes at enterprise scale. Carriers pay no subscription; brokers pay one subscription.

Plans are built around usage. For teams that want to get started quickly with predictable costs, we have self-serve options tied to monthly volume. For high-volume operations that need unlimited access and more hands-on support, we scope custom plans that fit how you actually work. The best way to figure out which fits your team is to talk to us.

How do you prevent fraud and double-brokering? How are carriers vetted?

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.

Can you integrate with our TMS? Do you have an API? How hard is it?

Yes, and for most teams, it's not a heavy lift. If you're on McLeod, Turvo, or Tai, we have existing integrations that can be stood up without a custom build. For proprietary or other TMS platforms, we work through an API-based approach and scope the right starting point together.Either way, the goal is the same: reduce manual posting, keep load and carrier data in sync, and surface things like DNU lists and approved carrier visibility directly in your existing workflow.

For teams new to the integration, we typically start with the simplest high-value connection—Cargado Market Rates—into your quoting workflow, and expand to posting sync and carrier management from there. A technical scoping call is usually the first step.

Where do your Market Rates come from and how accurate are they?

Market Rates are built from real carrier bids placed in our marketplace, not surveys, broker estimates, or historical averages. Because the data comes from actual bids, it reflects what carriers are willing to move freight for right now, 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.

How do we use Cargado for RFPs and bulk quoting?

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.