Quote a Mexico lane in minutes. Price an RFP with real bids.
Cargado Market Rates come from the bids carriers place on Cargado, not from a survey. Look up one lane in the app, price a whole bid file in Excel, or pull rates through the API.
Why Mexico quotes take longer than they should
On a domestic lane you have a rate benchmark in seconds. On a Mexico lane you have a text thread with two carriers, a spreadsheet from last quarter, and a shipper who wants the number by end of day.
Benchmarks stop at the border.
Most rate tools are built on U.S. domestic data and go quiet once the freight crosses the border.
The bid file lands all at once.
An RFP with dozens of Mexico lanes and a one-week turnaround is priced by asking carriers one lane at a time.
Every lane looks the same in the spreadsheet.
A lane with a deep bid history and a lane nobody has bid in a year get the same confidence in your quote.
How it works in Cargado
Look up the lane in the Rates tab
Enter origin, destination and trailer type. The result is a Low, Mid and High range for the lane, built from the bids carriers placed on Cargado over the trailing 12 weeks and refreshed weekly. Fuel is included. Currency follows your setting, in USD, MXN or CAD.
Read the range and the confidence before you quote
Low, Mid and High are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles of the bids on that lane, so Mid is the middle bid, not an average. Every result carries a confidence label, Strong, Medium or Lower, that tells you how many bids stand behind the number and how much they vary. It is a guide, not a guarantee. A 12-week history chart shows whether the lane has been moving before you commit a rate.
Price the whole RFP in Excel
The Cargado add-in for Excel puts the same rates in the bid file. Paste your lanes into the Cargado Rates sheet and the add-in returns Low, Mid and High, the confidence, and the recommended border crossing, one row per lane. It runs in Excel for Windows, Mac and the web, and you sign in with your Cargado login. No API key to manage.
No rate? Post the lane as a potential
When a lane has too few bids to show a range, the result says so and offers one click to post it as a potential. The bids that come back tell you where the lane prices today, and they build the Market Rate for next time.
What you need
- A broker subscription. Market Rates are included with every broker plan; lookups are metered per company, not per user, and every user on your team can run them.
- For Excel: an admin deploys the add-in from Microsoft AppSource once for your organization. Each user then signs in with their Cargado login. Works in Excel for Windows, Mac and the web.
- For each lane: origin city, destination city and trailer type. Cross-border lanes return the recommended crossing.
- The lane list you are quoting. Lookups in the app, in Excel and through the API count against the same plan allowance.
Pricing inside your TMS or pricing tool? Use the API
The Market Rates API returns the same Low, Mid and High range, confidence and history for up to 16 lanes per call, with the same weekly refresh. Keys are issued by our team; email success@cargado.com and see the reference at docs.cargado.com. Teams already on McLeod, Tai or Turvo can also push loads into Cargado from the TMS.
Questions brokers ask
Price the lane you are quoting today
Request access and run your first lookups on the lanes you actually quote. Market Rates come with every broker plan, and the Excel add-in and API come with them.