Alabama
What running a truck through Alabama costs in fuel tax, what the state pays the people who drive them, and how many carriers actually call it home. Every figure is pulled from a public source and dated, and the per-mile numbers are worked at 6.0 mpg.
Fuel tax
$0.3100
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 27 of 47.
Costs you
5.17c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$52,120
May 2025. Rank 43 of 51.
Active carriers
10,019
Interstate, based in Alabama. Rank 24 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3100 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $52,120, a tenth percentile of $38,240 and a ninetieth of $77,620. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
10,019 active interstate carriers running 104,359 trucks between them, at an average of 10.4 each.
How Alabama compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Alabama sits below it by $0.0581 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $968. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 46%.
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