Texas
What running a truck through Texas 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 46 of 47.
Costs you
3.33c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$56,290
May 2025. Rank 40 of 51.
Active carriers
56,805
Interstate, based in Texas. Rank 2 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 $56,290, a tenth percentile of $38,150 and a ninetieth of $79,400. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
56,805 active interstate carriers running 561,520 trucks between them, at an average of 9.9 each.
How Texas compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Texas 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 48%.
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