Michigan to South Dakota car hauling rates

48 car hauling loads from Michigan to South Dakota reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days. Their median rate: $1.77 a loaded mile, about $1,375 per car.

Updated 4 November 2026, 00:20 UTC·Loads on the Loadez load board, 5 October – 4 November 2026

Median per mile

$1.77

Middle half: $1.36 to $2.39 a loaded mile

Per car

$1,375

Price of the load ÷ cars on it, median

Loads

48

in 30 days · 25 in the last 7

Median load

$1,675

1 cars · 928 miles (each its own median)

What loads from Michigan to South Dakota paid this month

Half of the 48 priced loads from Michigan to South Dakota paid between $1.36 and $2.39 a loaded mile, and the median was $1.77. The rate per mile is for the whole load, 1 cars on a typical one, not per car.

A typical run on this lane is 928 miles. Across the country, loads of 500 to 1,000 miles paid a median $0.99 a mile in the same 30 days, so loads from Michigan to South Dakota paid 79% more than the market for that distance.

Every load out of Michigan, to anywhere, paid a median $1.23 a mile.

Week by week

Over the last 7 days loads from Michigan to South Dakota paid a median $2.21 a mile, against $1.43 in the 7 days before: the rate rose 55%.

Bar height: loads that reached the board that week. Above each bar: the week's median rate per loaded mile ("—" under five priced loads).

Coming back from South Dakota

South Dakota to Michigan is the thin side of this lane: 12 loads in the same 30 days, about 2 for every 10 going out. Count the miles home, or to the next pickup, into the rate you take here.

The busiest lanes out of South Dakota this month:

From South Dakota toLoadsPer milePer carMiles
California90$0.90$1,4001,623
Texas69$0.97$1,1001,093
Arizona51$1.04$1,2501,342
Minnesota50$1.27$400272
Missouri47$1.23$525450

Where the loads start and end

Pickup cities

  1. Ada, MI · 10 loads
  2. Ann Arbor, MI · 6 loads
  3. White Lake, MI · 6 loads
  4. Flat Rock, MI · 3 loads
  5. Clinton Township, MI · 2 loads

Delivery cities

  1. Sioux Falls, SD · 12 loads
  2. Kimball, SD · 11 loads
  3. Oacoma, SD · 6 loads
  4. Aberdeen, SD · 4 loads
  5. Rapid City, SD · 4 loads

42% of these loads asked for an enclosed trailer; 0% had at least one car that does not run.

From the posted rate to what the truck keeps

A rate per loaded mile leaves out the empty miles to the pickup, fuel at today's price, the driver's pay and the cost of the payment terms. The Loadez load board works all of that out on every load, for your own truck, before you call the broker. Check one load with the calculator, or read how to price a load.

How these numbers are counted. From every car hauling load that reached the Loadez load board in the 30 days to 4 November 2026, 00:20 UTC (5 October – 4 November 2026). Rate per mile is the posted price of the whole load divided by its route miles, pickup to delivery; per car is that price divided by the cars on the load. A load posted twice is counted once. Loads without a price or route miles, and placeholder prices, count as loads but not in the rates. Medians, not averages, so one odd posting does not move them; the middle half is the range between the 25th and 75th percentile. These are posted rates, before fuel, empty miles and driver pay. Updated every 6 hours.

Common questions

How much does it pay to haul cars from Michigan to South Dakota?

In the 30 days to 4 November 2026, car hauling loads from Michigan to South Dakota on the Loadez load board paid a median $1.77 per loaded mile, $1.36 to $2.39 for the middle half, or about $1,375 per car. The median load paid $1,675.

How many car hauling loads go from Michigan to South Dakota?

48 reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days, 25 of them in the last 7 days.

Are there car hauling loads back from South Dakota to Michigan?

12 loads went from South Dakota to Michigan in the same 30 days, against 48 from Michigan to South Dakota.

See every Michigan → South Dakota load as it reaches the board.

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