Arizona · border crossing
Dispatch for a crossing that doubles and halves
Reefer-heavy cross-border dispatch for carriers running Nogales, where volume swings with the produce season and capacity has to swing with it.
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Nogales is a produce crossing and it behaves like one. Planning it as though volume were flat is how a fleet ends up short of reefers in spring and long on payroll in late summer. The swing is in the data.
What the crossing moved, and what the run takes
- Nogales took 408,584 incoming trucks in calendar year 2025, out of 7,589,315 across every US-Mexico land border port.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — Border Crossing/Entry Data (calendar 2025)
- Its busiest month was May 2025 at 45,153 trucks and its quietest August at 23,310 — the peak carried close to twice the traffic of the trough.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — Border Crossing/Entry Data (monthly, 2025)
- That swing is the operational fact of the crossing: a fleet sized for August cannot cover May, and a fleet sized for May is carrying idle reefers in August.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — Border Crossing/Entry Data (monthly, 2025)
- 974 trains also entered through Nogales in 2025, a far smaller rail count than Laredo's 3,867.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — Border Crossing/Entry Data (calendar 2025)
- By incoming trucks in 2025 Nogales sat behind Laredo at 2,945,388, Otay Mesa at 990,111, Hidalgo at 719,184, Ysleta at 641,729 and Calexico East at 446,835.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — Border Crossing/Entry Data (calendar 2025)
- Trucks observed running from Santa Cruz County to Maricopa County in 2023 took a median of 139 minutes, with a quarter at 118 minutes or less and a quarter at 225 or more.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — ATRI Freight Mobility Initiative, county-to-county truck travel times (experimental, 2023)
- Heading east the same sample puts the median from Santa Cruz County at 199 minutes to Grant County, 220 to Luna County and 283 to Doña Ana County in New Mexico.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — ATRI Freight Mobility Initiative, county-to-county truck travel times (experimental, 2023)
- Those Nogales lanes sit in the 10,000 to 100,000 movement band for 2023, a thinner sample than the Laredo corridor, which is observed in the 100,000 to one million band.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — ATRI Freight Mobility Initiative, county-to-county truck travel times (experimental, 2023)
- The travel times are experimental estimates from a sample of about 300,000 trucks and measure elapsed time between a truck being seen leaving one county and arriving in the next, so rest and waiting are inside the number rather than excluded from it.
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics — ATRI Freight Mobility Initiative, county-to-county truck travel times (experimental, 2023)
Figures are inbound crossings recorded by US Customs and Border Protection and published by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Calendar 2025 is used throughout because it is the last complete year.
Nogales is one of the freight hubs on our Arizona page, which covers the corridors around it.
Common questions
How long is the run from Nogales to Phoenix?
- In 2023 the median observed elapsed time from Santa Cruz County to Maricopa County was 139 minutes, with a quarter of runs at 225 minutes or more. That is elapsed time including rest and waiting, estimated from a sample of trucks, not drive time.
How many trucks cross at Nogales?
- 408,584 entered the United States through Nogales in calendar year 2025, out of 7,589,315 across every US-Mexico land border port.
When is the Nogales produce season busiest?
- In 2025 the busiest month was May at 45,153 trucks and the quietest was August at 23,310, close to half the peak.
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