Georgia
What running a truck through Georgia 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
$0.3730
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 17 of 47.
Costs you
6.22c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$57,050
May 2025. Rank 36 of 51.
Active carriers
29,639
Interstate, based in Georgia. Rank 6 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3730 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $57,050, a tenth percentile of $38,150 and a ninetieth of $77,900. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
29,639 active interstate carriers running 540,132 trucks between them, at an average of 18.2 each.
How Georgia compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Georgia sits above it by $0.0049 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $82. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 52%.
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