Mississippi
What running a truck through Mississippi 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
$0.2400
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 39 of 47.
Costs you
4.00c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$51,820
May 2025. Rank 44 of 51.
Active carriers
7,690
Interstate, based in Mississippi. Rank 32 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2400 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $51,820, a tenth percentile of $35,710 and a ninetieth of $79,550. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
7,690 active interstate carriers running 187,797 trucks between them, at an average of 24.4 each.
How Mississippi compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Mississippi sits below it by $0.1281 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,134. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 50%.
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