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17 essays
2026
  1. 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 4/22/2026
2025
  1. Mexico Freight Is Hiding in Your Book — 3 Ways to Find It Your customers already have Mexico freight. You just haven't asked yet. 12/17/2025
  2. Oh the shippers you'll find Let's do a deep dive on the types of shippers out there. 11/12/2025
  3. Pouring one out for Canada Why brokers need to start thinking north while everyone else fights over U.S. freight 11/3/2025
  4. Five Tips to Grow Your Mexico and Canada Business Practical, high-impact moves to kickstart your Mexico and Canada business this week. 10/30/2025
  5. 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. 10/15/2025
  6. Driver Inc.: The Canadian Trucking Scam How some Canadian trucking companies are cutting corners and cheating the system. 9/4/2025
  7. Mexico 101: What Makes It Different Why fear of the unknown — not customs — is the biggest barrier to cross-border freight. 9/2/2025
  8. 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! 8/22/2025
  9. 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. 7/21/2025
  10. 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. 6/23/2025
  11. 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. 6/9/2025
  12. 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. 3/31/2025
  13. 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 3/20/2025
  14. Issue #49: The “MCA” of the USMCA Bridging Borders: The Flow of Trade Between Mexico and Canada 2/24/2025
  15. Issue #48: Stop freaking out, it’s just a trade war Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Moving Overnight 2/17/2025
  16. 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. 1/13/2025