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 — intra-Canada plus Canada–U.S. (northbound and southbound) with vetted recurring capacity, market rates from real carrier bids, in CAD or USD. Mexico is upside on the same login.
Domestic Canada and Canada–U.S. cross-border, on one login
Cargado runs your intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. (northbound and southbound) freight on a verified carrier network across Canada's busiest provinces — the modern alternative to legacy load boards, with vetted recurring capacity and Toronto support. Mexico is upside on the same login.
Equipment that matches Canada freight
Canadian freight runs through real winter and real customs. Cargado captures the equipment details and special requirements — heated, protect-from-freeze, winter securement — that matter for coverage and execution on intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. lanes.
Winter equipment and long combination vehicles
From November through March, freight that moves dry van in July needs a reefer running heat. Protect-from-freezing service on paint, adhesives, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and canned goods is a hard requirement, and a posting that buries it in the comments field gets the wrong trucks. Prairie and northern lanes also run long combination vehicles, including Super-B trains, where provincial permits allow them.
Standard cross-border equipment
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Vetted carriers for Canada freight
Source reliable spot and recurring capacity for domestic Canada and Canada–U.S. lanes, matched to your lane, equipment, and requirements — at no cost to carriers, so your pool keeps growing.
- Vetted capacity for intra-Canada and Canada–U.S. (northbound and southbound) lanes
- FAST-approved, CTPAT/PIP-certified, and bonded carriers for cross-border moves
- Carriers fluent in Canadian customs — PARS and ACI into Canada, PAPS and ACE into the U.S., with documentation pre-staged before the truck hits the crossing
Where Canada freight actually moves
Coverage follows the corridors. These are the markets and crossings where Cargado carriers run every day. Post the lane once and it reaches carriers already running that corridor, which is the part a load board search leaves you to work out on your own.
Freight markets
The Toronto–Montreal corridor along Highway 401 is Canada's freight spine — manufacturing, food and beverage, and the distribution centers serving both metros. Alberta runs energy and agriculture out of Calgary and Edmonton, and Vancouver is the Pacific gateway for import distribution.
Ontario: the GTA and the Great Lakes crossings
Ontario carries the largest share of Canada's manufacturing freight, and most of it originates in the Greater Toronto Area. Automotive parts out of Oakville and Windsor, food and consumer goods out of Mississauga and Brampton, and industrial freight out of Hamilton and Kitchener all funnel toward two crossings: the Ambassador Bridge at Windsor–Detroit and the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia–Port Huron. Cargado tracks which of the two each carrier runs, so a posting can go to the right side of the corridor when one bridge backs up.
Quebec: Montreal and the Lacolle corridor
Montreal anchors the eastern half of the network, moving aluminum, paper, food, and pharmaceuticals into the Northeast through Lacolle into New York and Vermont. Quebec's carrier base is largely francophone and much of the dispatch conversation happens in French, so Cargado serves the market in French as well as English. Quebec City, Trois-Rivières, and the Eastern Townships add industrial and forest-product freight moving on the same corridor.
Western Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba
Alberta's energy and agriculture freight moves heavy out of Calgary and Edmonton on flatbed, step deck, and heavy haul, with project and oversize work on top. British Columbia moves import distribution off the Port of Vancouver and produce south through the Pacific Highway crossing at Surrey–Blaine. Manitoba links the prairies to the U.S. Midwest through Emerson, and Winnipeg reefer freight runs south year-round.
Border crossings
Windsor–Detroit's Ambassador Bridge is the busiest commercial crossing on the U.S.–Canada border, with Sarnia–Port Huron's Blue Water Bridge, the Peace Bridge at Buffalo–Fort Erie, Pacific Highway in BC, and Emerson, Manitoba carrying the rest. Cargado tracks which crossings each carrier runs.
Explore border crossingsLanes and rates
From Ontario–Midwest automotive lanes to Quebec–Northeast runs, Cargado Market Rates covers U.S.–Canada corridors with bands built from real carrier bids — price the lane before you chase the freight.
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