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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. № 074 Good, Better, Best Never let it rest! Until your good gets better and your better gets best! Dec 29, 2025
  2. № 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
  3. № 072 Oh the shippers you'll find Let's do a deep dive on the types of shippers out there. Nov 12, 2025
  4. № 071 Building the future of freight collaboration How we’re rethinking how brokers and carriers connect on Mexico and Canada freight. Nov 06, 2025
  5. № 070 Pouring one out for Canada Why brokers need to start thinking north while everyone else fights over U.S. freight Nov 03, 2025
  6. № 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
  7. № 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
  8. № 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
  9. № 065 Driver Inc.: The Canadian Trucking Scam How some Canadian trucking companies are cutting corners and cheating the system. Sep 04, 2025
  10. № 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
  11. № 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
  12. № 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
  13. № 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
  14. № 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
  15. № 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
  16. № 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
  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. № 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
  20. № 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. № 046 Issue #45: AI in Freight: The Right Role for Technology Before diving in, let’s thank our friends at FreightCaviar for the shoutout in this morning’s newsletter about my X debate with my brother, Andrew. Dec 16, 2024
  2. № 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
  3. № 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
  4. № 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
  5. № 030 Issue #29: Ops Life in Freight Operating freight isn't for everyone. I've done the job - I understand what goes into it. Let's dive deep on the topic. Jun 17, 2024
  6. № 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
  7. № 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
  8. № 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
  9. № 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
  10. № 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
  11. № 021 Issue #20: Five Opportunities to Improve the Freight Industry Some things in this industry are working, but they're not working great. It's time to build better tech for the industry. Apr 15, 2024
  12. № 020 Issue #19: What Drives a Driver In seventeen years in brokerage, half of my time was spent focused on cross-border freight. The other half was mostly carrier sales-related work. Let's talk about what I learned during that time. Apr 01, 2024
  13. № 018 Issue #17: Marketing and Brand Identity in the Freight Industry Marketing can be hit or miss for companies in the freight industry. Most companies focus on shipper acquisition, ignoring carriers and potential employees. Mar 18, 2024
  14. № 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
  15. № 015 Issue #14: Building In Public Building in public can be fun and exhausting at the same time. It's almost a separate personality that you have to manage and produce. Let's talk a bit about building a company. Feb 26, 2024
  16. № 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
  17. № 012 Issue #11: The Freight Industry Is Changing The freight industry is changing. It’s evolving for the better. It may not seem like that right now but things are moving in the right direction. Feb 05, 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. № 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
  2. № 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
  3. № 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
  4. № 001 Introducing the Silver Substack. Ramblings about the intersection of freight and tech. Nov 25, 2023