Pharr – Reynosa

The Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge anchors cross-border trucking in the Rio Grande Valley. The City of Pharr, which owns the bridge, reports it is the number one U.S. crossing for imported Mexican produce, and the bridge maintains cold storage at the port to keep perishables moving. Produce is only part of the story. The bridge reports that most of its trade value is manufactured goods, reflecting Reynosa's deep maquiladora base in electronics, appliances, medical, and automotive components.

What brokers should know

• Cold chain lives here. The McAllen-Pharr area has one of the densest concentrations of produce cold storage and inspection infrastructure on the border.
• Two freight cultures. Produce runs on urgency and appointment discipline, while maquiladora freight runs on steady daily schedules. Both cross the same span.
• Capacity is growing. The bridge is expanding its commercial facilities, according to the City of Pharr.

Produce commonly transloads at Valley cold storage before the U.S. linehaul, both for inspection and for consolidation, while manufactured freight increasingly runs door-to-door on through-trailers. See transbordo for how a border transfer differs from a full transload. Reynosa sits about two and a half hours from Monterrey, so Pharr also serves as an alternate gateway for Nuevo Leon freight when Laredo tightens. If cross-border produce is new to your team, Mexico 101 covers the fundamentals.

Popular lanes through the Pharr–Reynosa crossing

Every Cargado lane that routes through this crossing carries a border-aware route map and a day-by-day transit estimate, with the Mexican leg and the U.S. leg broken out at the border. A sample:

• Reynosa → Toronto On
• Reynosa → Laredo
• Laredo → Reynosa
• Reynosa → Montreal Qc
• Reynosa → Houston
• Houston → Reynosa
• Reynosa → Vancouver Bc
• Reynosa → Los Angeles
• Los Angeles → Reynosa
• Reynosa → Calgary Ab
• Reynosa → Dallas
• Dallas → Reynosa

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On the Cargado network

Carrier capacity at Pharr

The app calls this port Hidalgo (Pharr) and pairs it with Reynosa. Freight for all four equipment families is posted through it, and carriers with each family list Pharr among their crossings.

Pharr is best known for produce. Fresh produce loads posted from Mexico to the U.S. are mostly posted for reefer equipment, and reefer freight is posted through Pharr with reefer carriers declaring the crossing. The City of Pharr's bridge site calls it the number one produce crossing in the nation, and other local sources rank it differently. Cargado does not measure which crossing handles the most produce.

Pharr is also not only a Tamaulipas crossing. Freight is posted between the U.S. and Tamaulipas, and also between the U.S. and Nuevo León, Guanajuato and Jalisco through Pharr. Nuevo León loads post here as well as at Laredo.

U.S. carriers with B1 and CDL drivers and Mexican carriers with import and export drivers bid on Pharr freight, as do C-TPAT, FAST, OEA and bonded-for-Mexico carriers. Mexican carriers with drayage drivers list Pharr on their profile.

Pharr in brief

• Mexican side: Reynosa. The app's port name is Hidalgo (Pharr).
• States behind the crossing: Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Jalisco.
• Reefer: reefer freight is posted through Pharr and reefer carriers declare it. Produce from Mexico to the U.S. is mostly posted for reefer.
• Also posted: dry van, open deck, straight truck.
• Bidding here: B1 and CDL carriers (U.S.), import and export carriers (Mexico), C-TPAT, FAST, OEA and bonded-for-Mexico carriers.
• Declaring the crossing: Mexican carriers with drayage drivers.

How to reach Pharr capacity on Cargado

For perishables, put the commodity, the temperature setting and the delivery appointment on the posting; carriers do not declare temperature ranges, so the posting is where that lives. Flag the inspections the load needs, such as USDA, CBP Agriculture or SENASICA, so bidders see them. Name Pharr as the crossing and the Reynosa plant or the Rio Grande Valley cold storage as the real stop. A food-grade trailer is a spec you can set, and C-TPAT, FAST and OEA can be required too. Suggested carriers show the reason each fits, which for Pharr freight can be a reefer carrier with an available truck near the pickup.

At a glance

Freight posted on Cargado

• Freight is posted through Pharr for dry van, reefer, open deck and straight truck, and carriers with that equipment declare the crossing.
• Fresh produce loads from Mexico to the U.S. are mostly posted for reefer equipment.
• Freight is posted between the U.S. and Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Guanajuato or Jalisco through Pharr.

Carriers bid on it

• Carriers with B1, CDL and import and export drivers bid on freight through Pharr.
• C-TPAT, FAST, OEA and bonded-for-Mexico carriers bid on freight through Pharr.

Carriers declare it

• The app's Hidalgo port is the Pharr crossing, paired with Reynosa.
• Carriers with drayage drivers declare the Pharr crossing.

More questions

Which crossing handles most produce entering the U.S. from Mexico?

Cargado does not measure that. Local sources rank the produce crossings differently, so check current figures before you plan around one. On our network, produce loads from Mexico to the U.S. are mostly posted for reefer, and reefer freight is posted through Pharr.

Can Pharr work for Nuevo León freight?

Freight between the U.S. and Nuevo León is posted through Pharr as well as through Laredo, so the two crossings can both serve northeast Mexico loads. Post the true origin and destination, and carriers that run the crossing you need will bid.