Fuel Cost Watch

Real diesel. Real trend. No guessing.

Diesel is the biggest variable cost in trucking. This is the actual current on-highway price and the real recent trend from EIA weekly data — translated to $/mile. We show no forecast: predicting next week's price would be a guess, and we don't guess.

U.S. on-highway diesel · week of 2026-09-07

$5.967/gal

≈ $0.918/mile in fuel (at 6.5 mpg)

Rising
1 wk: +6.6%1 mo: +13.5%1 qtr: +14.5%1 yr: +58.4%

Recent weekly trend

Fuel surcharge helper

The standard industry formula, run on today's real diesel price — nothing predicted.

The base diesel price already baked into your rate. Set it to your contract.

Loaded Class 8 is typically 6.0–6.5.

Suggested fuel surcharge, right now:

$0.786/mile

= ($5.967 current − $1.25 peg) ÷ 6 mpg. On a 500-mile load, that's about $393.08.

Transparent math you can show a shipper. Not a rate recommendation — you set the peg and mpg.

By region (this week, highest first)

California$7.764
West Coast$6.987
West Coast exc California$6.314
Central Atlantic$6.051
New England$5.99
Midwest$5.946
Rocky Mountains$5.805
Gulf Coast$5.754
East Coast$5.744
Lower Atlantic$5.605
What this scan is worth
thousands / truck / yrrecovered by pricing fuel surcharges accurately
  • Fuel is ~24% of trucking's marginal cost (ATRI) and the biggest weekly variable — mispriced surcharges quietly erode margin every mile.
  • Setting surcharges off the live diesel price protects your per-mile profit.

Industry reference — a potential, not a guarantee. Your actual figure depends on your business. Source: ATRI Operational Costs 2025 + EIA weekly diesel.

How to read this

  • • Source: EIA weekly on-highway diesel (via USDA agtransport mirror); ~1-week lag.
  • • $/mile uses a 6.5 mpg rule-of-thumb — your real mpg changes the number.
  • • Informational only; not a hedging, trading, or price recommendation.

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