Mexico City is the country's largest consumer market and the center of a logistics belt whose industrial leasing jumped 55 percent in 2024. Pick an origin or destination in the directory to open its lane guide, and read how city delivery rules, the Laredo handoff and the CFDI work on Mexico City freight. Cargado is a marketplace where brokers post Mexico and Canada truck freight and vetted carriers bid on it.
Laredo
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Dry van
Mexico City is where Mexico's consumer goods, plastics and packaging, paper, pharma and machinery are made, stocked and sold. Industrial leasing activity in the metro reached 1.2 million square meters through the third quarter of 2024, a 55 percent jump driven by logistics and e-commerce tenants (ProMéxico Industry), most of it in the northern belt around Cuautitlán, Tultitlán and Tepotzotlán. Northbound, expect finished consumer goods, plastics, paper products and machinery headed for Texas, the Midwest and both coasts; southbound, components, resins, retail goods and food for the capital. Federal Highway 57 carries the traffic north through Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Saltillo to Laredo.
U.S. guides run from Mexico City to Laredo, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Memphis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Charlotte, Lakeland, Allentown, Harrisburg, Los Angeles and Stockton, and back from Texas, the Midwest, the Southeast, the Northeast and California. Mexico guides connect the capital with Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Hermosillo, Tijuana and León, and inbound with Monterrey, Saltillo, the Bajío, Querétaro, Puebla, Mexicali and Tijuana. Canada guides run each way with Toronto and Vancouver, and to London, Ontario. Confirm whether you need the Mexico leg, the U.S. leg or the door-to-door move, and, for international lanes, who covers the Laredo transfer; domestic Mexico lanes have no crossing.
Mexico City restricts heavy truck movement on parts of its road network at certain hours, and many receivers in the capital take deliveries at night or early morning. Confirm the current restrictions for the exact address, and put the delivery window, the receiver's truck size limit and any appointment on the posting; a pickup in the northern industrial belt is a different job from a delivery downtown.
Most Mexico City freight for the U.S. or Canada runs Highway 57 and 85 to a Nuevo Laredo yard on a Mexican carrier, transfers across the World Trade Bridge, and continues on a U.S. carrier; a transload moves the cargo to another trailer at a dock instead. Post the leg you need covered and check what each bid includes: the transfer, any transload, trailer use and detention.
Any leg inside Mexico needs a carrier with Mexican operating authority, and for every Mexican leg confirm who issues the CFDI, Mexico's electronic tax document, with Carta Porte details when required. Northbound, a U.S. customs broker usually files the U.S. entry at Laredo; southbound, the importer's licensed Mexican customs broker, or an authorized representative, files the Mexican entry. Some shippers require an escort or GPS tracking on high-value loads; state it on the posting so bids include it.
Most Mexico City lanes into the U.S. and Canada run north on Federal Highway 57 and cross at Laredo, where the World Trade Bridge is the commercial default. Each cross-border lane guide on this hub names the crossing it uses; the domestic guides from Monterrey and Puebla and to León have no crossing.
Yes, for any leg inside Mexico: it needs a carrier with Mexican operating authority. A lane to a U.S. or Canadian city usually runs Mexico City to a Nuevo Laredo yard on a Mexican carrier, then a transfer across the bridge and a carrier with U.S. authority to destination. For a Canadian destination, also confirm U.S. transit paperwork, Canadian entry and each carrier's authority. State the leg you need covered when you post on Cargado so the carriers authorized for it can bid.
Post the pickup and delivery, the date, the equipment and the leg you need covered. For a city delivery, include the window and the receiver's truck limits; for a border move, the crossing and the handoff plan. Vetted carriers that run the corridor bid, and you compare what each bid covers before you book. Where a corridor has enough bid history, Cargado Market Rates gives you a reference built from carrier bids before you quote.
Dry van leads, carrying consumer goods, plastics, paper and machinery. Reefer carries food and pharma, and open deck carries building materials. Post the trailer type with the weight, dimensions and loading requirements so carriers can price the load.
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