Arkansas
What running a truck through Arkansas 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
$0.2850
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 31 of 47.
Costs you
4.75c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$51,550
May 2025. Rank 45 of 51.
Active carriers
6,018
Interstate, based in Arkansas. Rank 36 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2850 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $51,550, a tenth percentile of $36,770 and a ninetieth of $81,110. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
6,018 active interstate carriers running 136,153 trucks between them, at an average of 22.6 each.
How Arkansas compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Arkansas sits below it by $0.0831 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,384. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 45%.
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