South Carolina
What running a truck through South Carolina 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
$0.2800
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 32 of 47.
Costs you
4.67c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$51,130
May 2025. Rank 47 of 51.
Active carriers
10,827
Interstate, based in South Carolina. Rank 22 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2800 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $51,130, a tenth percentile of $39,330 and a ninetieth of $77,070. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
10,827 active interstate carriers running 57,080 trucks between them, at an average of 5.3 each.
How South Carolina compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so South Carolina sits below it by $0.0881 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,468. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 52%.
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