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Cross-border benchmarks, built into GoodShip

Cargado's Mexico and Canada rate intelligence, embedded where shippers already run procurement — available to joint customers.

Cargado Market Rates showing cross-border lane benchmarks with confidence scores, as embedded in GoodShip

How GoodShip customers get Cargado rates

1

Run procurement in GoodShip

You already benchmark carriers and run RFPs in GoodShip. Nothing about that changes.

2

Add a Cargado subscription

One value-based subscription with unlimited users unlocks Cargado's cross-border rate intelligence.

3

Benchmarks appear in your workspace

Mexico and Canada rate context shows up alongside your carrier bids — nothing new to install.

100,000+
real carrier bids behind every benchmark
12,000+
Mexico and Canada lanes covered
Weekly
rate refreshes from the live marketplace

How shippers should read the bands

Every lane shows a low, mid, and high band — P25, P50, and P75 of real carrier bids. Which one applies depends on what you're shipping, where, and how often.

P25 · Low band

Consistent, committed freight

Contracted lanes with steady volume, a good origin market, and real lead time should land here. If you're paying above P25 on committed freight, that's a negotiation signal.

P50 · Mid band

The market middle

The median of what carriers bid — a fair baseline for standard spot moves with about a week of lead time and normal pickup windows.

P75 · High band

Speed and certainty

Short notice, tight or weekend pickups in Mexico, lower volume, or a rising market — expect spot coverage to clear between P50 and P75. You're paying for certainty.

These are benchmarks from real bids, not guarantees — every lane carries a confidence score and margin of error so you know how much weight to put on the band. And lead time is the cheapest lever there is: moving freight from spot-urgency to committed, planned volume is worth roughly 14% on truck costs.

Where you can get rates

LaredoEl PasoMonterreyGuadalajaraCDMXChattanoogaDallasChicagoLos ÁngelesTorontoMontréalWinnipegU.S. ↔ MexicoU.S. ↔ CanadaDomestic MexicoDomestic CanadaU.S. border-city freight (limited)
Covered

U.S. ↔ Mexico

Our strongest coverage, both directions — corridors like Laredo–Monterrey, Guadalajara–Laredo, and Monterrey–Chattanooga.

Covered

U.S. ↔ Canada

Cross-border lanes in both directions, north and south.

Covered

Domestic Mexico

Intra-Mexico moves between manufacturing hubs, ports, and the border.

Covered

Domestic Canada

Intra-Canada moves, including the equipment nuances Canadian freight demands.

Limited

U.S. border-city freight

Some rate data for U.S. freight moving to and from border cities like Laredo and El Paso — check the confidence score on these lanes.

Not in scope

U.S. domestic

The vast majority of U.S. domestic freight is outside Cargado's scope — we're cross-border-first by design.

What GoodShip does

GoodShip is a procurement and benchmarking platform where shippers run RFPs, score carriers, and track how their rates compare to the market.

Why it matters

Shippers get defensible cross-border market context in the tool where procurement decisions already happen, and brokers on Cargado compete for freight priced on real data instead of guesswork.

Common questions

What's the difference between GoodShip and Cargado?

GoodShip is a procurement and orchestration platform where shippers run RFPs, mini-bids, and carrier scorecards. Cargado is the Mexico and Canada freight marketplace and rate-intelligence platform for brokers, 3PLs, and forwarders. This partnership embeds Cargado's cross-border benchmarks inside GoodShip, so shippers see real market context where they already make procurement decisions.

How do I get Cargado benchmarks in my GoodShip workspace?

Be a customer of both. If your company already works with GoodShip, add a Cargado subscription — directly with Cargado or through your existing relationships — and Cargado appears as a selectable benchmark in GoodShip. The connection runs on Cargado's Market Rates API with a customer-specific key. There's no additional fee to turn the connection on and nothing to install.

What lanes and freight does the data cover?

Cargado is built for North American cross-border freight: U.S.–Mexico in both directions — our strongest coverage, on corridors like Laredo–Monterrey and Guadalajara–Laredo — plus U.S.–Canada, domestic Mexico, and domestic Canada. There's some rate data for U.S. freight moving to and from border cities like Laredo and El Paso, but the vast majority of U.S. domestic freight is out of scope — Cargado is cross-border-first by design. Full truckload, partials, and power-only, across dry van, reefer, and open deck, with other equipment by posting.

Where do the benchmarks come from?

Real carrier bids placed in Cargado's marketplace — hundreds every day — not scraped historical loads or surveys. Rates show as low, mid, and high market bands over a trailing 12-week window, refreshed weekly, each with a confidence score so you know how much weight to put on a lane. Thin-data lanes get a lower confidence score rather than a made-up number.

Do the benchmarks cover spot or contract freight?

Both — and the bands tell you what to expect. The bids behind the benchmarks blend spot loads and recurring lanes, and the two distributions track within a couple of percent, so the bands reflect today's market for both. Benchmark your contracted freight against P25: consistent volume on a good lane with real lead time should land there. Expect spot coverage to clear between P50 and P75 — tighter pickup windows, shorter lead time, lower volume, or a tougher market all push you up the band.

I'm a shipper — can I join the Cargado marketplace directly?

The marketplace itself is for vetted brokers, 3PLs, forwarders, and carriers. As a shipper, you get Cargado's rate intelligence through GoodShip or through a direct rate-data subscription with Cargado — today the partnership is benchmarking-first. Talk to us and we'll set up the right path.

How does pricing work?

Cargado subscriptions are value-based and scale with usage — from teams doing occasional rate lookups to enterprise plans with unlimited access — and every plan includes unlimited users. Talk to us to find the right fit for how your team quotes.

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