Rhode Island
What running a truck through Rhode Island 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
$0.4000
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 14 of 47.
Costs you
6.67c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,190
May 2025. Rank 20 of 51.
Active carriers
2,937
Interstate, based in Rhode Island. Rank 45 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.4000 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,190, a tenth percentile of $45,600 and a ninetieth of $75,120. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
2,937 active interstate carriers running 16,914 trucks between them, at an average of 5.8 each.
How Rhode Island compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Rhode Island sits above it by $0.0319 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $532. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 45%.
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