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2026
  1. № 081 Building the Mexico Team: When to Hire, Who to Hire, and How to Scale Part 4 of the Mexico Freight Playbook — how to staff your Mexico operation at each stage of growth, from your first load to a full department Apr 22, 2026
2025
  1. № 073 Mexico Freight Is Hiding in Your Book — 3 Ways to Find It Your customers already have Mexico freight. You just haven't asked yet. Dec 17, 2025
  2. № 072 Oh the shippers you'll find Let's do a deep dive on the types of shippers out there. Nov 12, 2025
  3. № 071 Building the future of freight collaboration How we’re rethinking how brokers and carriers connect on Mexico and Canada freight. Nov 06, 2025
  4. № 069 Five Tips to Grow Your Mexico and Canada Business Practical, high-impact moves to kickstart your Mexico and Canada business this week. Oct 30, 2025
  5. № 068 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. Oct 15, 2025
  6. № 067 It might be time to fire your Mexico or Canada leader Stop paying people to dial for dollars and waste time on WhatsApp and LinkedIn covering freight when software can do it faster — and better. Oct 01, 2025
  7. № 066 The Many Faces of Carriers in Cargado Oh, the Faces of Carriers You’ll See — across the U.S.-Mexico border and Canada’s wide roads. Sep 26, 2025
  8. № 064 Mexico 101: What Makes It Different Why fear of the unknown — not customs — is the biggest barrier to cross-border freight. Sep 02, 2025
  9. № 063 Issue #62: Clearing the Air on B1 Drivers, Worker Visas, and Cabotage B1 drivers are not the enemy — they are a core part of North American supply chain! Aug 22, 2025
  10. № 061 Issue #60: USMCA on the Clock: What Renegotiation Could Mean for Cross-Border Freight Trump’s Commerce Secretary says USMCA is next. For freight people, the real changes will be capacity-driven. Jul 21, 2025
  11. № 060 Issue #59: Takeaways from the 8th Annual Modernization of Cross-Border Trade A tactical recap of what we covered in Laredo—and the advice I’d give any broker trying to win in Mexico freight right now. Jun 23, 2025
  12. № 059 Issue #58: Canada Is Live. Market Rates Are Here. Cargado Just Leveled Up. Canada coverage is live. Mexico quoting just got smarter. And we’re only getting started. Jun 09, 2025
  13. № 056 Issue #55: Building the Mexico Carrier Network of the Future Why our human-led, tech-enabled approach gives brokers what they need — and carriers what they want. May 12, 2025
  14. № 055 Issue #54: Why Mexico, and Why Now Nearshoring is accelerating. If your customers are moving freight in Mexico, you should be too. May 05, 2025
  15. № 054 Issue #53: A Guide to Mexico Freight Liability Understanding the Risks, Insurance Requirements, and Best Practices for Brokers and Shippers to Protect High-Risk Cargo and Navigate Mexico’s Freight Security Challenges Apr 28, 2025
  16. № 053 Issue #52: Announcing Cargado’s Series A Announcing Our $12M Series A: Building the Future of Cross-Border Freight Apr 07, 2025
  17. № 052 Issue #51: How Auto Tariffs Will Break More Than They Fix Why a 25% tariff on imported cars could shake the foundations of U.S. supply chains, freight networks, and your grocery bill. Mar 31, 2025
  18. № 051 Issue #50: Beyond the Headlines: Why Mexico Tariffs Aren’t the End of Cross-Border Freight A Strategic Guide to Identifying Tariff-Free Opportunities and Growing Your Mexico Freight Business Under USMCA Mar 20, 2025
  19. № 050 Issue #49: The “MCA” of the USMCA Bridging Borders: The Flow of Trade Between Mexico and Canada Feb 24, 2025
  20. № 049 Issue #48: Stop freaking out, it’s just a trade war Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Moving Overnight Feb 17, 2025
  21. № 048 Issue #47: Freight in the Second Trump Era – Trade, Tech, and Transformation As Donald Trump prepares to take office for a second time, it’s clear this presidency will look different from his first. Jan 13, 2025
2024
  1. № 044 Issue #43: Forager vs Cargado, what’s the difference? On a very consistent basis, I regularly get asked about the main differences between Forager and Cargado. Dec 02, 2024
  2. № 043 Issue #42: A Car-gobble gobble thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who reads my newsletter and those in the Cargado community! Nov 28, 2024
  3. № 041 Issue #40: Collaboration: The Key to Success Between Brokers and Carriers This industry is built on relationships and doesn't happen without brokers and carriers. Oct 21, 2024
  4. № 040 Issue #39: What we're building and why I've tiptoed around what we're building but we're finally ready to talk about what we're building and why we're building it the way we're building it. Sep 23, 2024
  5. № 037 Issue #36: Back to Laredo and some panel topics I’m on my way back to Laredo for the 7th Annual Reliance Partners' Modernization of Cross Border Trade, hosted by Mark Vickers, who had started Borderless Coverage originally. Aug 05, 2024
  6. № 036 Monthly Digest - July Read on for some Mexico resources and job opportunities with Cargado! Jul 29, 2024
  7. № 034 Issue #33: The Cross-Border Blueprint, Part II Back in February, I wrote Issue #13: The Cross-Border Blueprint, which covered some of the first steps it takes to expand into Mexico. Jul 15, 2024
  8. № 032 Issue #31: Time off in Maine I decided to head to Maine with my wife and son and take the week of the 4th off this year. Jul 01, 2024
  9. № 031 Issue #30: Monthly Digest – June Coyote is being acquired by RXO as we approach the end of Q2. Jun 24, 2024
  10. № 028 Issue #27: Sixty Days Post-Launch We've been live for two months and have twenty-two brokers using our software. This one is a review of those last two months and an update about a couple new hires we made. Jun 03, 2024
  11. № 027 Monthly Digest – May After essentially writing a long-form newsletter every week, I decided to try something different with more of a digest format for this week. Turns out this one is still long. May 28, 2024
  12. № 026 Issue #25: Cross-Border Capacity Carriers that service Mexico aren’t your average carrier. In fact, some cross-border carriers don’t let their trucks cross the border, just their trailers. May 20, 2024
  13. № 024 Issue #23: We’ve got new swag, and some new funding! We raised more money, got some new swag, and have some new partners who are going to help accelerate Cargado’s growth. May 06, 2024
  14. № 023 Issue #22: Put on your carrier sales hat, shirt, and pants The first half of my career was spent in carrier sales and I still talk to carriers on a daily basis. Carriers might be my favorite part of freight as I reflect on the carrier sales function. Apr 29, 2024
  15. № 022 Feedback Loop Feedback from customers can make or break your product. Read on for a deep dive on early product feedback loops. Apr 22, 2024
  16. № 016 Cross-Border Complexity U.S.-Mexico cross-border freight carries so much complexity that there’s never just a simple path to follow in order to execute it successfully. Mar 04, 2024
  17. № 014 Issue #13: The Cross-Border Blueprint I think the most common phrase I’ve said related to Mexico is “cross-border freight is complicated,” and I mean it. I can’t help it, most shippers and brokers find it to be a black hole. Feb 19, 2024
  18. № 011 Issue #10: How freight gets across the U.S.-Mexico border There is so much complexity to cross-border freight. It's not just the language or the border, it's every part of the process. Jan 29, 2024
  19. № 010 Introducing Cargado I’m proud to announce that Cargado is out of stealth, with a $3M round from Ironspring Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Zenda Capital, Proeza Ventures, Sahil Bloom, Craig Fuller, & other angel investors. Jan 22, 2024
  20. № 009 Issue #8: Security in Mexico Cargo theft is one of the hottest topics in cross-border logistics. It's less daunting than it feels. Jan 15, 2024
  21. № 008 Issue #7: A Carta Porte Deep Dive Towards the end of 2020, Mexico introduced plans to roll out the Carta Porte 3.0. As of January 2024, we still don't have a fully implemented Carta Porte 3.0 but will soon. Jan 08, 2024
  22. № 007 Issue #6: How I got my start with Mexico I've been asked often enough how I, a gringo, got involved in cross-border Mexico freight. It's addicting and I love the complexity of it all. Read more for the backstory. Jan 02, 2024
2023
  1. № 006 Christmas Edition A quick post on wrapping up 2023 and getting ready for 2024. Dec 22, 2023
  2. № 005 Issue #4: Supply Chain Startups I've had the opportunity to meet the founders of so many startups in the past few years and I try to help as many as possible succeed. Read on for how I got my start in tech and angel investing! Dec 18, 2023
  3. № 004 Issue #3: Hecho en Mexico / Made in Mexico After a busy trip to Laredo, TX, I decided to cover what moves through this amazing border city. With only 250k people, it's so much bigger than the population would tell you. Dec 11, 2023
  4. № 003 Issue #2: Nearshoring is Booming With all this talk about crazy growth in Mexico, let's do a deep dive on what nearshoring means and why it's here to stay. Dec 04, 2023
  5. № 001 Introducing the Silver Substack. Ramblings about the intersection of freight and tech. Nov 25, 2023