Bottom Line: Based on market rates for one-way truck and car rentals, there are a LOT more people le

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Bottom Line: Based on market rates for one-way truck and car rentals, there are a LOT more people leaving Illinois for Texas, than leaving Texas for Illinois. The 6.2-to-1 one-way truck rental ratio above suggests that there is such a huge inventory of U-Haul trucks stranded in Texas, along with such a low demand for trucks going to Chicago, that you can rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck for only $473 to go from Houston to Chicago, which is 42% cheaper than a one-way cheap airline rates economy car rental from Budget ($815) for the exact same distance. The fact that you can rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck for 42% less than an economy car from Budget to travel from Houston to Chicago probably means that U-Haul is renting trucks for below its cost, and is in fact so desperate to move trucks to the Chicago cheap airline rates area that it is subsidizing customers renting cheap airline rates those trucks.