Florida
What running a truck through Florida 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
$0.4097
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 13 of 47.
Costs you
6.83c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$50,640
May 2025. Rank 48 of 51.
Active carriers
33,773
Interstate, based in Florida. Rank 5 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.4097 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $50,640, a tenth percentile of $37,700 and a ninetieth of $74,330. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
33,773 active interstate carriers running 435,138 trucks between them, at an average of 12.9 each.
How Florida compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Florida sits above it by $0.0416 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $694. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 57%.
Other states