Cargado isn’t your father's load board
Only 60% of marketplace activity is spot freight — the rest is recurring lanes and projects fueled by Cargado’s live market intelligence.
If you’ve spent time in freight, you know that load board is a loaded term. And behind all of it is the market intelligence that logistics companies now rely on to quote, price, and plan cross-border freight.
If you’ve spent time in freight, you know that load board is a loaded term.
It conjures images of noise, spam, and brokers posting the same load in ten places hoping one truck sticks.
We get it. We even use the term ourselves sometimes — because it’s what people understand.
But Cargado isn’t a load board. It’s a capacity management and market intelligence platform.
Load boards are bulletin boards for freight.
Cargado is a collaboration platform — where brokers manage coverage, benchmark pricing, and build real carrier relationships across the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexico, and Canada.
It’s Not Just Loads — It’s the Lanes That Matter
Roughly 60% of postings on Cargado are loads.
The rest are lanes that customers are sourcing for RFPs, contracted freight, dedicated capacity, or recurring projects.
This mix is intentional.
We designed Cargado for how freight actually works:
some days you’re covering spot freight, other days you’re building programs and pricing multi-month projects.
That’s why our customers use Cargado not only to find coverage, but to grow their networks — tracking where they already move freight, where they could be more competitive, and where market rates are shifting fastest.
Live Market Intelligence, Not Static Averages
Every day, 300–500 new carrier bids flow through Cargado — live, not scraped.
That adds up to 90,000+ carrier-submitted bids across 2,000+ lanes, updated weekly.
This isn’t survey data or stale averages. It’s real carrier pricing — from carriers actively moving freight.
And that’s why logistics companies use Cargado’s rate data for more than quoting: they use it for budgeting, procurement, and forecasting.
Benchmark spend: Instantly see if you’re above or below market on any lane.
Get instant spot rates: Mexico and Canada included — no back-and-forth emails.
Run RFPs in seconds: Upload your lanes and generate market-based rate bands instantly.
It’s not market “insight.” It’s true carrier-driven pricing data.
Capacity Management, Not Just Coverage
On Cargado, customers post and cover both spot and contracted freight — across Mexico, Canada, and domestic lanes.
Mexico northbound coverage now exceeds 90% on key lanes like Querétaro–Detroit and Monterrey–Chicago.
Mexico → Canada lanes such as Monterrey–Toronto and Querétaro–Montreal are hitting 100% bid rates.
Canada → U.S. outbound freight is seeing robust bid activity, averaging 4–5 bids per posting on lanes like Toronto–Chicago and Montréal–Chattanooga, with 80–90% coverage rates across most southbound corridors.
Domestic Mexico freight is surging, with Querétaro–Monterrey at 92% coverage.
That kind of consistency doesn’t happen on a “board.”
It happens when capacity and data work together.
The Flywheel: Data Feeds Capacity, Capacity Feeds Data
Every bid, every post, every coverage event makes the system smarter.
Each bid improves our Market Index, measuring supply and demand by region.
Each match refines rate data for future quotes.
Each new broker brings in new carriers — and vice versa.
That’s how we’ve built a network of 200+ active Mexican carriers, many covering both domestic and cross-border freight.
Every user contributes to the accuracy of the data that powers the next deal.
It’s a self-reinforcing loop — data fuels capacity, capacity fuels data — and it benefits everyone plugged into it.
Customer Outcomes
When customers fully adopt Cargado, the impact compounds fast.
One large brokerage doubled its active postings within weeks after combining Cargado Market Rates with its Mexico and Domestic Mexico freight strategy — resulting in a 3x increase in carrier engagement and an average of 5–6 bids per posting.
One mid-sized brokerage previously at risk of churn re-engaged after adopting Domestic Mexico, more than doubling its weekly posting volume and quickly becoming one of the top participants in that market.
One cross-border brokerage expanding into Canada achieved a 2x increase in lane coverage in its first week, averaging 4 bids per posting across northbound and southbound freight.
These aren’t edge cases — they’re early signs of what happens when a broker stops operating blind and starts operating with data.
Why It Matters
A typical load board helps you get a bunch of phone calls to find a truck.
Cargado helps you build a network, price intelligently, and compete with confidence.
That’s the difference between hustling and optimizing.
Between chasing spot loads and managing an actual freight strategy.
And it’s all built on one idea:
When brokers and carriers can collaborate in a modern environment, everyone wins faster.
The Bottom Line
Cargado isn’t your typical load board.
It’s where coverage meets intelligence, and freight meets foresight.
Win more freight. Post more lanes. Build a serious network.
That’s what our customers are doing every single day.
P.S.
We’ve got some really awesome new products launching soon. Like, really soon.
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If you want a peak at the roadmap and how we’re going to drive this industry forward through a collaboration platform, reach out directly and I’ll walk you through it!
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