Canadian and cross-border freight rates from real carrier bids, refreshed weekly
Get the low, mid and high rate for supported Canada–U.S., U.S.–Mexico and domestic Mexico lanes, built from bids carriers place on real postings and refreshed weekly. The bids come from Cargado, a modern marketplace for Mexico and Canada freight with 2,350+ carriers. Page updated October 2026.
What changes a cross-border truckload rate
Direction: northbound and southbound are separate markets, so price each direction on its own. Distance: a short border move costs far less than a long haul to or from the interior. Trailer: dry van, reefer and flatbed are priced separately. Border: a through trailer and a transload at the border are different services with different costs. The market: rates move, so check this week's low, mid and high for your lane in Cargado before you quote.
Quote loads on the spot and win freight faster
Pull the low, mid and high rate for a supported Canada, cross-border or Mexico lane in seconds, with a confidence label so you know how much weight to put on it.
Use 12 weeks of lane history to spot seasonal shifts, anticipate moves during RFP season, and show customers the data behind your number.
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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.”
Price RFPs same-day in Excel
The Excel add-in prices hundreds of lanes without leaving your spreadsheet. It returns the same low, mid and high the app shows, plus per-mile figures.
Benchmark spend against the market
See where each lane sits against real carrier bids and what moved, then plan the budget with that in front of you. When you need capacity, post the lane to the same marketplace.
Put rates in your TMS or pricing engine
The Market Rates API sends rates into your TMS, pricing engine or data warehouse. It returns U.S. dollars unless the request asks for pesos or Canadian dollars. It also works with AI assistants and any other tool that can call an API.
Get Market Rates in Cargado's apps
Access Canada and Canada–U.S. cross-border market rates, plus Mexico, on desktop or mobile, so you can quote, validate, and respond fast wherever you're working.
Customer stories
“I say to the customer, I can give you that rate right now. We can finish the deal. And it’s happened six times now. And of those six times, I closed the deal in the moment.”
Common questions about cross-border freight rates
What brokers ask about Market Rates
It depends on the lane, the direction, the trailer and the timing. Look up your lane in Cargado Market Rates for this week's low, mid and high, built from carrier bids with fuel included. Canada lanes have less bidding data than Mexico lanes, so some show a lower confidence label or no rate yet. Confirm customs brokerage and any duties separately with your customs broker.
The two directions are separate markets, with different demand, different carrier pools and different paperwork at the border. In Cargado, each direction of a lane has its own low, mid and high, so quote each direction from its own data.
Rates in the product update weekly using trailing 12-week bidding data.
The rates reflect carrier bids for the move as posted, with fuel included. Confirm with the carrier whether transfer and transloading services are included, and confirm customs brokerage and any duties separately with your customs broker.
Yes. The rate is a total per load with fuel included. If you compare it with a linehaul-only quote, add the fuel surcharge to that quote first.
Bids placed by carriers on real postings in Cargado's marketplace. They are not surveys, scraped historical loads or invoices collected after the fact. The low, mid and high are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile of those bids. A rate appears only when enough recent bidding data supports it. Rates that appear carry a confidence label; otherwise, no rate is shown.
Yes. In the app you can price a lookup in Canadian dollars, U.S. dollars or pesos. Domestic Mexico lanes default to pesos.
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