The DOE number, read plainly
The Monday diesel number for people who get paid by the mile.
EIA's Monday on-highway diesel price is the most widely used public benchmark for US trucking fuel surcharges. We publish it with the context that matters per mile: regional spreads, the pump-over-spot gap, and cost per mile at a stated 6.5 mpg reference. One brief a week. No forecasts, no buy signals.
Data through Aug 24, 2026 · updated Aug 25, 2026
Latest issue · Aug 25, 2026
DOE Diesel at $5.652, Gulf Coast the Week's Biggest Mover
The DOE number rose 19.8 cents to $5.652/gal for the week of August 24, the index fuel-surcharge schedules peg to. At the stated 6.5 mpg reference, that is 87.0 cents a mile and about $15.23 more per 500-mile haul.
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The DOE number
EIA's Monday-priced on-highway diesel number, the benchmark most fuel surcharges peg to.
1 pageRegions
On-highway diesel by PADD, East Coast subregion and California, week over week.
10 pagesSpot
Daily ULSD spot at New York Harbor and the Gulf Coast, the wholesale layer under the pump.
2 pagesCrude oil
Daily WTI and Brent crude spot, the upstream cost that drives roughly half the pump price.
3 pagesSpreads
Each region's pump price minus the US average, in cents per gallon, plus West vs Gulf.
11 pagesPump vs spot
Retail minus the nearest-business-day ULSD spot, the pump-over-wholesale proxy (includes taxes).
2 pagesCost per mile
The DOE number translated to fuel cost per mile at a stated 6.5 mpg reference.
1 pageWhy prices are moving
Why the DOE number is rising or falling right now, updated every week the data moves.
2 pagesCurrent price
The current US average diesel price in one sentence: the number, the move and what drives it.
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