North Carolina to Iowa car hauling rates

39 car hauling loads from North Carolina to Iowa reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days. Their median rate: $1.11 a loaded mile, about $1,163 per car.

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

Median per mile

$1.11

Middle half: $0.89 to $1.46 a loaded mile

Per car

$1,163

Price of the load ÷ cars on it, median

Loads

39

in 30 days · 16 in the last 7

Median load

$1,200

1 cars · 1,116 miles (each its own median)

What loads from North Carolina to Iowa paid this month

Half of the 38 priced loads from North Carolina to Iowa paid between $0.89 and $1.46 a loaded mile, and the median was $1.11. 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 1,116 miles. Across the country, loads of 1,000 to 1,500 miles paid a median $0.85 a mile in the same 30 days, so loads from North Carolina to Iowa paid 31% more than the market for that distance.

Every load out of North Carolina, to anywhere, paid a median $1.05 a mile.

Week by week

Over the last 7 days loads from North Carolina to Iowa paid a median $1.16 a mile, against $0.98 in the 7 days before: the rate rose 18%.

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 Iowa

The way back is thinner: 24 loads went from Iowa to North Carolina (Iowa to North Carolina rates), about 6 for every 10 going out. Most trucks will find their next load on another lane out of Iowa.

The busiest lanes out of Iowa this month:

From Iowa toLoadsPer milePer carMiles
Texas280$1.05$975967
Illinois212$1.30$300312
Florida208$0.81$1,1751,457
Missouri205$1.60$425338
California141$0.70$1,2001,787

Where the loads start and end

Pickup cities

  1. Kenly, NC · 5 loads
  2. Raleigh, NC · 3 loads
  3. Rocky Point, NC · 3 loads
  4. Statesville, NC · 3 loads
  5. Cary, NC · 2 loads

Delivery cities

  1. Des Moines, IA · 11 loads
  2. Cedar Rapids, IA · 3 loads
  3. Marion, IA · 3 loads
  4. Sheffield, IA · 3 loads
  5. Ankeny, IA · 2 loads

13% 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 North Carolina to Iowa?

In the 30 days to 4 November 2026, car hauling loads from North Carolina to Iowa on the Loadez load board paid a median $1.11 per loaded mile, $0.89 to $1.46 for the middle half, or about $1,163 per car. The median load paid $1,200.

How many car hauling loads go from North Carolina to Iowa?

39 reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days, 16 of them in the last 7 days.

Are there car hauling loads back from Iowa to North Carolina?

24 loads went from Iowa to North Carolina in the same 30 days, against 39 from North Carolina to Iowa.

See every North Carolina → Iowa load as it reaches the board.

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