Tires — llantas — and rubber products move out of the Bajio tire-manufacturing cluster in floor-loaded dry vans, one of the most distinctive commodity flows on the marketplace.
Finished tires move floor-loaded in 53-foot dry vans — cubing out well before weight limits — while rubber raw materials and tire tubes ride palletized on standard dry equipment.
Tire postings concentrate overwhelmingly in Queretaro, with related rubber and tire-tube volume in San Luis Potosi, Cincinnati, and Springfield.
Tires are one of the most geographically concentrated freight types on the Cargado marketplace. The Spanish-language posting term llantas dominates the category, and the overwhelming majority of that volume originates in one place: Queretaro, the heart of Mexico's tire-manufacturing cluster in the Bajio.
Global tire manufacturers have concentrated production in the Bajio corridor, and the freight follows. Queretaro is the standout origin for tire postings in the data, with San Luis Potosi and the surrounding manufacturing belt feeding the same northbound flows toward U.S. distribution centers. On the U.S. side, tire and rubber volume appears in midwestern and southeastern markets — tire tubes, rubber mats, and mixed plastic-rubber articles post out of markets like Cincinnati and Springfield, and rubber flows extend into Quebec.
Tire lanes out of the Bajio pair naturally with southbound freight into the same plants — raw materials, machinery, and returnable packaging — so carriers hunting round trips price these lanes competitively. The load itself is straightforward, which makes disclosure the main lever: a posting that states llantas, the count, and floor-load handling expectations gets cleaner bids than a generic dry-goods post. Because tire plants ship on production cadence rather than spot bursts, these are also lanes where consistent weekly volume earns brokers priority treatment from the carriers who know the docks.
Explore Bajio corridors on the lanes pages, or start with the Mexico 101 guides for crossing and carrier-vetting fundamentals.
Most finished-tire freight moves floor-loaded, stacked in interlocking rows to maximize the count per trailer, because tires cube out a dry van long before weight becomes a factor. Floor-loading means slower, more labor-intensive loading and unloading, so the posting should state the handling method and expected load time so carriers can bid accurately.
Check three things: whether the commodity is clearly disclosed — llantas or tires, with a count — whether the posted rate sits within the market band for the lane, and whether the posting shows the true origin rather than a border stop. Bajio tire lanes have real carrier depth, so a complete, accurately priced posting on these corridors typically draws multiple bids.
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