Cargado Market Rates

Canada and Canada–U.S. cross-border rates from real carrier bids, refreshed weekly

Low, mid and high rate bands for Canada and cross-border lanes, built from real carrier bids and refreshed weekly. Quote your customers fast and with confidence.

Market rates for freight from Monterrey NLE to Chattanooga TN with low $3,579, mid $3,742, and high $3,967.
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Stop guessing rates and start winning freight

Cargado Market Rates is the industry's only pricing intelligence tool for Canadian and Canada–U.S. cross-border freight, with Mexico cross-border on the same login. Use market rates informed by real carrier bids to quote your customer, price an RFP, or benchmark spend against the market.

Quote loads on the spot and win freight faster

Instead of guessing a rate or waiting hours for carriers to respond, simply pull the low, mid, and high pricing bands with confidence scores in seconds for any Canadian or cross-border lane.

Use 12-week lane history to spot seasonal shifts, anticipate rate changes during RFP cycles, and advise customers with data they can't get anywhere else.

“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.”

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Patty Hinojosa
VP of Mexico Sales and Operations
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Price RFPs in seconds and respond same-day

With Cargado's Excel Add-In, price hundreds of lanes within seconds without leaving your spreadsheet, and win freight faster with less manual work.

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Benchmark spend and protect your budget

Benchmark your spend against real carrier bids to make smarter procurement decisions. See where each lane sits against the market and what moved, then plan your budget with that picture in front of you, and source Mexico and Canada capacity through Cargado when you need it.

Integrate Market Rates into your pricing engine, TMS, and more

Leverage our API to bring Market Rates into all your workflows and systems, and get market rates wherever you are.

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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.

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“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.”

César Pérez
Inland Transportation Senior Manager, Henco Global
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Common questions

What brokers ask about Market Rates

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Where do the rates come from?
Real carrier bids placed in Cargado's marketplace, not scraped historical loads or annual surveys. Rates show as low, mid, and high market bands (P25, P50, P75) 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.
What lanes are covered?

U.S. and Mexico in both directions is the largest corridor, on lanes like Laredo–Monterrey and Guadalajara–Laredo. Domestic Mexico is live, priced in pesos by default, on moves between manufacturing hubs, ports and the border. Cross-border Canada is priced where carriers are bidding, though the data is thinner than Mexico and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Rates come back in dollars, pesos or Canadian dollars, whichever you ask for. The vast majority of U.S. domestic freight is out of scope, and intra-Canada moves are not supported — Cargado is cross-border-first by design.

How should I use the P25, P50, and P75 bands when quoting?
Match the band to the freight. Pricing an RFP or consistent volume on a good lane with real lead time? Quote near P25 — especially with a high confidence score. A standard spot load with about a week of lead time sits around P50. Short notice, tough pickup windows, weekend pickups in Mexico, or a rising market push you toward P75. The bands are carrier cost, to the truck.
How is this different from other rate tools?
Most load board rate tools are built on U.S. domestic data, from surveys to factoring data to stitched-together averages, and go quiet the moment freight crosses the border. Cargado's benchmarks come from real bids placed by vetted Canada and Mexico carriers on real cross-border freight, so the number reflects what carriers will actually move a lane for this week.
How do I get access?
Market Rates is included with a Cargado subscription, in the platform, in the Excel add-in for RFPs, and over the API for teams that want rates in their own tools. Subscriptions are value-based with unlimited users on every plan. Shippers can subscribe to the data directly, pull it through the API or the Excel add-in, or reach it inside a partner platform.

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