Origin market
Industries:
Distribution:
Gallup, NM to El Paso, TX freight
The Gallup to El Paso corridor runs within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. On Cargado, multiple carriers bid here in the past year.
Direction
U.S. border feeder
Equipment on this lane
Dry van-led corridor
Carrier availability
Multiple carriers bid here in the past year
Marketplace activity
Posted by brokers on the Cargado marketplace
<div class="lane-viz"><div class="lane-viz-mapwrap"><img class="lane-viz-map" src="https://cargado-lane-maps.pages.dev/gallup-nm-to-el-paso-tx.svg" alt="Gallup, NM to El Paso, TX freight route map on Cargado" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="620"></div><div class="lane-viz-panel"><div class="lane-viz-title">Transit time</div><div class="tr"><div class="trrow tot"><span>Transit</span><b>1 day</b></div><div class="trmi">381 mi driving</div></div><a class="lane-cta" href="https://cargado.com/brokers/get-a-demo">Get a Rate <span class="arw">→</span></a><div class="lane-viz-fine">Estimated drive time by road, split at the border. Border dwell varies with documentation and crossing.</div></div></div>
This corridor connects the Gallup market (Farmington, Prewitt) with the El Paso market (El Paso, Santa Teresa, Sunland Park, Anthony, Vado), running within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. Over the past 12 months brokers posted this corridor to the Cargado marketplace. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year.
What ships from Gallup
Freight out of the Gallup market leans toward paper and packaging, fresh produce and food and beverage based on what brokers actually post there. You can read more about moving these goods on the freight types pages.
Equipment on this corridor
Dry van-led corridor. Browse equipment definitions in the glossary if a term is unfamiliar.
Feeding the border
This U.S. leg connects inland freight with the border gateway at El Paso. Loads typically stage or transload there before crossing into Mexico, or distribute onward after clearing customs northbound. See the border crossings directory for how the gateway operates.
This corridor is one of many corridors with real bid history on Cargado, the marketplace connecting hundreds of brokers with verified Mexico and Canada carriers.
The markets on this lane
Destination market
El Paso, TX
El Paso is the U.S. side of a cross-border freight corridor with Ciudad Juárez. Computer-related machinery and electrical machinery were the two largest U.S.-Mexico truck commodities by value in 2025, and the Ysleta crossing ranked second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports. Commercial truck processing at the Bridge of the Americas is scheduled to end in early 2028, and Union Pacific operates an intermodal terminal at Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
Industries: Computers and electronics, electrical equipment, auto parts, medical devices, metal products
- Customs bridge/port: Ysleta commercial truck crossing. $112 billion of 2025 truck freight, second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports (operating). Source
- Customs bridge/port: Bridge of the Americas land port of entry, where commercial truck processing ends when modernization construction starts in early 2028, with substantial completion slated for summer 2031 (planned). Source
- Customs bridge/port: Marcelino Serna (Tornillo) commercial crossing. Commercial cargo processing resumed August 7, 2023 (reopened August 2023). Source
- Intermodal or rail yard: Union Pacific Santa Teresa Intermodal Ramp, which replaced the El Paso ramp (opened April 2014). Source
- Industrial park: Santa Teresa Gateway Rail Park, a master-planned park with direct access to the Santa Teresa port of entry and a connection to Union Pacific's intermodal complex, with Foreign Trade Zone space available. 1,300 acres; 225,000 units of annual lift capacity at the intermodal park. Source
- Airport: El Paso International Airport air cargo center. 288,000 sq ft cargo complex. Source
- Industrial park: Foreign-Trade Zone 68, with an airport site and private sites across El Paso County. 1,065-acre airport site plus 2,376 acres at other sites. Source
Distribution: Third-party logistics providers in Foreign-Trade Zone 68 offering public warehousing, distribution and storage, and the air cargo complex at the airport.
Market profiles describe industries and facility types from public government, industry, port, railroad and industrial-park sources. They name no shippers, manufacturers, retailers or logistics companies.
Common questions about this lane
How do I find carriers for Gallup to El Paso?
On Cargado, brokers post the corridor and vetted carriers bid on it. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year. Every carrier is verified before it can bid, which replaces cold-calling unknown carriers.
What equipment is available on the Gallup to El Paso corridor?
Postings here lean dry van-led corridor. If you need a type you do not see, post the load anyway. Carriers with matching equipment get notified automatically.
Why is a U.S. lane on a Mexico freight marketplace?
Because it feeds the border. Cross-border programs need the inland leg to and from the gateway, and brokers post those legs alongside the international move so one carrier network covers the whole program.
Moving freight on this lane?
Post it to 2,350+ vetted Mexico and Canada carriers, or check market rates built from real carrier bids before you quote.