Ohio to Illinois car hauling rates

801 car hauling loads from Ohio to Illinois reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days. Their median rate: $1.20 a loaded mile, about $400 per car.

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

Median per mile

$1.20

Middle half: $0.98 to $1.52 a loaded mile

Per car

$400

Price of the load ÷ cars on it, median

Loads

801

in 30 days · 395 in the last 7

Median load

$425

1 cars · 358 miles (each its own median)

What loads from Ohio to Illinois paid this month

Half of the 797 priced loads from Ohio to Illinois paid between $0.98 and $1.52 a loaded mile, and the median was $1.20. 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 358 miles. Across the country, loads of under 500 miles paid a median $1.57 a mile in the same 30 days, so loads from Ohio to Illinois paid 24% less than the market for that distance.

Every load out of Ohio, to anywhere, paid a median $1.14 a mile.

Week by week

Over the last 7 days loads from Ohio to Illinois paid a median $1.14 a mile, against $1.25 in the 7 days before: the rate fell 9%.

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 Illinois

The way back is thinner: 485 loads went from Illinois to Ohio (Illinois to Ohio rates), about 6 for every 10 going out. Most trucks will find their next load on another lane out of Illinois.

The busiest lanes out of Illinois this month:

From Illinois toLoadsPer milePer carMiles
Florida1,716$0.76$9501,314
Texas1,452$0.96$9001,036
California1,021$0.67$1,3502,029
Indiana875$1.66$248173
Missouri813$1.36$400323

Where the loads start and end

Pickup cities

  1. Columbus, OH · 103 loads
  2. Grove City, OH · 59 loads
  3. Akron, OH · 33 loads
  4. Cleveland, OH · 32 loads
  5. Lorain, OH · 31 loads

Delivery cities

  1. Chicago, IL · 90 loads
  2. Elk Grove Village, IL · 44 loads
  3. Chicago Heights, IL · 25 loads
  4. Bridgeview, IL · 16 loads
  5. Effingham, IL · 15 loads

3% of these loads asked for an enclosed trailer; 4% 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 Ohio to Illinois?

In the 30 days to 4 November 2026, car hauling loads from Ohio to Illinois on the Loadez load board paid a median $1.20 per loaded mile, $0.98 to $1.52 for the middle half, or about $400 per car. The median load paid $425.

How many car hauling loads go from Ohio to Illinois?

801 reached the Loadez load board in the last 30 days, 395 of them in the last 7 days.

Are there car hauling loads back from Illinois to Ohio?

485 loads went from Illinois to Ohio in the same 30 days, against 801 from Ohio to Illinois.

See every Ohio → Illinois load as it reaches the board.

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