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Diesel, fuel tax, filing deadlines, penalty amounts, and cost per mile. Every figure carries its publisher, a link, and the day we pulled it. Free, no login, no email.

Published by Sam Barret DispatchFort Worth, TexasUpdated weekly

The desk

Five references, open right now.

Diesel and the fuel surchargeGulf Coast and national weekly averages, the surcharge worked out per mile at your own mpg, and diesel tax rates across the states Texas carriers actually runLive Compliance deadline calendarEvery recurring federal and Texas filing in date order, the dates set by your own USDOT number, and what a slipped date costsLive What a carrier must trackThe full record inventory, retention clocks by document type, the roadside enforcement numbers, and the new entrant auditLive Cost per mile and the rate floorATRI line item costs, the small fleet penalty, spot rates against breakeven, and a back office cost calculatorLive Corridors, border, port, and permitsTexas freight scale, FHWA bottleneck ranks, Laredo crossings, Port Houston volumes and gate hours, and oversize permit rules in eleven statesLive

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Corrections in public

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Where a figure does not exist

There is no weekly Texas diesel series and no published Texas inspection count. Those rows say so instead of guessing.

This week

Gulf Coast diesel moved 19.3 cents. Did your surcharge?

A truck at 6.0 miles per gallon burns roughly 83 gallons on a 500 mile run. Nineteen cents a gallon is about sixteen dollars, every run, in either direction. On four runs a week that is over eight hundred dollars a quarter, moving in whichever direction you were not watching.

The diesel page works the surcharge out at your own mileage and your own base, shows the six week trend, and lists the fuel tax rate in eleven states.

Work out your surcharge

Gulf Coast dieselWeek ending 17 Aug 2026

$5.237per gallon, weekly average

▲ 19.3¢ week over week

National average$5.454

Prior week, Gulf Coast$5.044

Midwest PADD 2$5.435

Surcharge, 6.0 mpg, $1.25 base66.45¢ / mi

Series: U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly retail on highway diesel, Gulf Coast PADD 3 and U.S. average. Week ending 17 August 2026, retrieved 25 August 2026. There is no weekly Texas diesel series, which is why the benchmark is PADD 3. Open the diesel desk.

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