Mexico freight software for U.S. brokers
Price the lane in dollars or pesos, post it with the crossing and the equipment Mexico runs, get bids from carriers our team has reviewed, and talk to them in Spanish without speaking it. Cargado runs next to the TMS you already have.
What a Mexico desk needs, and what Cargado covers
Mexico freight asks four things of a U.S. broker that its domestic desk is not set up for: a carrier that runs the crossing your customer uses, door-to-door or with a transload; a rate in the right currency; a carrier whose Mexican authority and company documents someone has looked at; and a way to talk to that carrier in Spanish. Cargado puts those four in one workflow. It is not a TMS, it does not move the freight, and it does not do your customs paperwork. Your TMS stays the system of record, and the carriers you book move the load.
Crossings and transfer type
Post the crossing and whether the move is door-to-door or transload. Cargado tracks which crossings each carrier runs.
Rates in USD or MXN
Low, mid and high bands from real carrier bids, in the currency you ask for.
Reviewed Mexican carriers
RFC, SICT permit and company documents reviewed by our team before an account is turned on.
Chat in Spanish
Messages auto-translate between English and Spanish, tied to the load.
The Mexico desk, in one workflow
Price the lane
Pick the equipment, the origin, the destination and the crossing. Cargado recommends a crossing when the bid data supports one. You get low, mid and high bands from real carrier bids over the trailing 12 weeks, refreshed weekly, in USD or MXN. The bands are what carriers bid, not your sell rate; add your margin.
Post it with the Mexico details
Crossing, service area, door-to-door or transload, equipment, and requirements such as CTPAT, OEA, bonded status or cargo insurance. The carriers that fit see it; the ones that do not, do not.
Work the bids
Cargado suggests carriers that fit before any bid comes in. Each bid shows the carrier's DOT, MC or SCT number and where it stands with your company. Compare, counter and accept in one place. Block any carrier you do not want.
Cover it and talk in Spanish
Chat is tied to the load and auto-translates between English and Spanish, so pickup, crossing and delivery questions get answered without a translator.
How Mexican carriers get onto Cargado
A carrier based in Mexico can apply without a USDOT number. It submits its RFC and constancia de situación fiscal, its SICT operating permit, proof of address and ID for its legal representative, and, for companies, the acta constitutiva. Our carrier team reviews the documents before turning the account on. Until then the carrier cannot see or bid on freight. Carriers applying today also give three references from companies they have hauled for.
- U.S.-based carriers that run Mexico lanes apply with their USDOT number, looked up in FMCSA records, and need active common or contract authority before the account is turned on.
- If your load needs U.S. registration or authority on the Mexican carrier, confirm the carrier holds it before you tender.
- Carriers state certifications like CTPAT, OEA, bonded status or cargo insurance on their own profile. Confirm them before you tender. Cargado's review does not replace your own onboarding.
- You can block a carrier on any posting, and if you report a carrier our team can restrict or deactivate the account.
"Having a double vetting process is almost essential these days."
Kevin Sendre, Director of Full Truckload North America, Gebrüder Weiss
The major crossings, and the equipment Mexico runs
Cargado supports the major Texas, California and Arizona ports of entry into Mexico and tracks which crossings each carrier runs, so a posting reaches carriers that actually cross there.
Texas
Laredo (World Trade Bridge and Colombia Solidarity Bridge), El Paso, Eagle Pass, Del Rio, Brownsville, and Pharr-Hidalgo
California
Otay Mesa, Calexico, and Tecate
Arizona
Nogales, San Luis, and Douglas
Equipment for cross-border and domestic Mexico
Dry van, reefer, open deck (flatbed, stepdeck, double drop/lowboy, RGN, Conestoga), power only, and drop-and-hook.
Specialized for domestic Mexico
Tortón, Rabón, and straight trucks from 0.5 to 3.5 ton.
Mexico lanes priced in dollars or pesos
U.S.–Mexico in both directions is the largest corridor in Market Rates, on lanes like Laredo–Monterrey and Guadalajara–Laredo. Domestic Mexico is live and priced in pesos by default, on moves between manufacturing hubs, ports and the border. Each lookup returns low, mid and high bands with a confidence badge; a thin lane gets a lower confidence badge rather than a made-up number. Price a whole Mexico RFP in Excel with the add-in, or pull the bands into your pricing engine through the API.
Works next to your TMS
Cargado is not a TMS. Loads sync from your TMS into Cargado and post under your rules. On McLeod, Tai and Turvo integrations, bids and bookings flow back into your TMS; on other systems, your team records the booking in your TMS. Which systems are supported, how the marketplace differs from a load board, and how the subscription is priced are on the freight broker software page.
A broker that started Mexico from zero
Blackbox Logistics
Launched its Mexico business through Cargado with no in-house Mexico experience.
Common questions
Start with one Mexico lane
Request access and a member of our team will price the lane you keep turning down and show you which carriers on Cargado run it.