State cost guides
What it costs to run, state by state.
Ten states, each one covering fuel and fuel tax, tolls, operating cost and the lanes people actually run. Live diesel prices come from the EIA feed in our tools, not from this page.
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Texas
Texas is the highest-volume freight state in the country and the one where deadhead discipline pays off most, because the distances between its major markets are long enough to swallow a thin rate.
Read the Texas guide →CA
California
California is usually the most expensive state in the country to buy diesel in, and it carries equipment rules that no other state has. Both belong in the rate before you accept a load into it.
Read the California guide →FL
Florida
Florida is a peninsula, and geography is the whole cost story: freight goes in more easily than it comes out, so the backhaul decides whether the trip worked.
Read the Florida guide →GA
Georgia
Atlanta is one of the densest freight crossroads in the Southeast, which cuts both ways: reloads come quickly, and so does competition on every posted rate.
Read the Georgia guide →TN
Tennessee
Our home state, and one of the best-positioned in the country: Memphis and Nashville both sit inside a day's drive of a large share of US freight.
Read the Tennessee guide →IL
Illinois
Chicago is the rail and freight hub of the Midwest, and the state around it is the most toll- and time-expensive place to run in the region.
Read the Illinois guide →OH
Ohio
Ohio is a crossroads state: three large markets, heavy manufacturing and distribution freight, and a toll turnpike across the north.
Read the Ohio guide →PA
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania combines heavy tolling, mountain running and high fuel taxation. It is the clearest example of a state where a rate that looks fine on paper does not survive the route.
Read the Pennsylvania guide →AZ
Arizona
Arizona is long-haul country with a strong California relationship and summer heat that costs you in tires, fuel economy and equipment.
Read the Arizona guide →NC
North Carolina
North Carolina sits on the I-85 and I-95 corridors with a broad manufacturing and distribution base, which makes it one of the easier Southeast states to reload out of.
Read the North Carolina guide →Fuel-tax rates are republished every quarter and toll schedules change, so these guides point you at the official sources instead of printing figures that go stale. For a price on a specific load, score it — the tools use the EIA weekly diesel average for your pickup region and print the week they used.
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