Louisiana
What running a truck through Louisiana 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
$0.2000
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 45 of 47.
Costs you
3.33c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$49,320
May 2025. Rank 51 of 51.
Active carriers
6,043
Interstate, based in Louisiana. Rank 35 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2000 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $49,320, a tenth percentile of $36,710 and a ninetieth of $68,740. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
6,043 active interstate carriers running 87,312 trucks between them, at an average of 14.4 each.
How Louisiana compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Louisiana sits below it by $0.1681 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,801. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 47%.
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