Tennessee
What running a truck through Tennessee 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
$0.2700
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 35 of 47.
Costs you
4.50c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,620
May 2025. Rank 28 of 51.
Active carriers
13,462
Interstate, based in Tennessee. Rank 19 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2700 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,620, a tenth percentile of $39,960 and a ninetieth of $83,280. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
13,462 active interstate carriers running 280,303 trucks between them, at an average of 20.8 each.
How Tennessee compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Tennessee sits below it by $0.0981 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,634. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 45%.
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