A domestic truckload move with a regulatory event in the middle. The regulatory event is where it fails.
How Canada differs from Mexico and from domestic, the carrier base and cabotage, customs and documentation, bonded movement, operating differences and KPIs.
Get documentation right and Canada is straightforward. Get it wrong and it is maddening for reasons you cannot diagnose from a load board.
Directional imbalance is a real feature here. The thin direction carries the empty, and the backhaul logic applies with unusual force.
No industry benchmarks. Where a figure appears it is either sourced to a public filing and cited, or labelled as the author’s own judgment. Written by an operator with fifteen years building and scaling freight brokerages.