What Bulk Gravel Costs Delivered, From 2 Tons to 40

One number covers the stone and the truck

At the median across our priced cities, #57 Crushed Stone costs $438 for 2 tons, $615 for 5 tons, $810 for 10 tons and $2,176 for 40 tons, and each figure already includes the delivery.^[1],[2]

Those totals come from a ladder. Every city carries its own delivered totals in whole dollars, so you never add a truck fee on top or work out a fuel charge. You pick the material, the amount and the ZIP, and the site shows the delivered total. A 2.5% card fee shows at checkout where it applies.^[2]

A rate painted on a yard sign is a different animal. It covers the stone at the pile, and you still need a way to get that stone home. Comparing it to a delivered figure tells you nothing until you add the haul to the sign.

Every figure below is a national figure across our priced cities, taken on 2026-11-01. We price 368 cities, and a ZIP outside that list is priced from the nearest city, with the site telling you which one.^[2]

The 2 ton rate against the 10 ton rate

The same #57 Crushed Stone costs $219 a ton on a 2 ton load, $123 on 5 tons and $81 on 10.^[1]

The trip explains it. A truck has to leave the yard, drive to your address, dump and drive back whether it carries a small load or a big one. Split that fixed cost over 2 tons and each ton carries a heavy share of it. Split it over 10 tons and the share shrinks.

So on a small order you mostly pay for the ride. That has a useful side effect. Going from 2 tons at $438 to 5 tons at $615 buys two and a half times the stone for about 1.4 times the money.^[1]

If you have any other use for stone on the property, add it to this order.

The rate does not fall at every step. #57 Crushed Stone sits at $81 a ton at both 10 and 20 tons, then drops to $55 a ton at 40 tons.^[1]

Four staples up the ladder

Road Base is the packed layer that carries a driveway. It runs $418 at 2 tons, $563 at 5, $763 at 10, $1,434 at 20 and $1,809 at 40. That last rung works out to $46 a ton, against $209 a ton at the bottom.^[1]

Recycled Crushed Concrete sells close to Road Base. It costs $392 at 2 tons, $554 at 5 and $730 at 10, which beats Road Base on all three rungs. At 20 tons it is $1,450 and at 40 tons it is $1,959, and there Road Base takes the lead at $1,434 and $1,809.^[1]

Pea Gravel is the one people buy for looks, and the ladder shows it. A 2 ton load is $702 and 5 tons is $1,001. At 10 tons you pay $1,332, at 20 tons $2,665 and at 40 tons $3,714.^[1]

#57 Crushed Stone falls between them, above Road Base at every rung and far below Pea Gravel. At 20 tons it costs $1,612.^[1]

Pricing a parking strip from the tape measure

Take a gravel parking strip 36 feet long and 11 feet wide, with #57 Crushed Stone laid 3 inches deep. Multiply 36 by 11 and you get 396 square feet. Three inches is a quarter of a foot, so 396 times 0.25 gives 99 cubic feet, and 99 over 27 is 3.67 cubic yards.^[3]

Now turn yards into tons. This stone is 2,700 lb a yard, so 3.67 times 2,700, divided by 2,000, comes to 4.95 tons. The calculator lifts that to 5 tons, since it rounds up in half ton steps, and the median delivered total is $615.^{[1],[2],[3],[4]}

Weight can nudge you up a step. Road Base weighs more, 2,800 lb to the yard, so the same 3.67 yards comes to 5.13 tons, and the calculator takes that to 5.5 tons. Same strip, same depth, half a ton more on the order.^[2],[4]

Depth moves that total quickly. Take the same strip to 4 inches and you need 132 cubic feet, or about 6.6 tons, which rounds up to 7 tons. That sits between the $615 rung and the $810 rung, so one extra inch across 396 square feet adds two tons to the order.^[1]

At 2,600 lb a yard, Pea Gravel keeps the 3 inch strip at 5 tons, but the total climbs to $1,001. It would also roll under your tires, so skip it for parking at any price.^[1],[4]

What pushes your total up or down

Your city comes first. For #57 Crushed Stone at 2 tons, the lowest city total is $431 and the highest is $484. At 40 tons the same spread runs from $2,142 to $2,404.^[1]

Material comes next. At 5 tons, Crushed Concrete is $554 and River Rock is $1,116, on the same truck in the same city list. Pick the stone for the job first, then look at what the job can afford.^[1]

Then the amount. Online orders move in half ton steps, starting at 2 tons and stopping at 100.^[2]

Being short is the mistake that costs real money. Extra stone stays with you, but a second delivery is priced as a new order. Run out at the end of a job and those last few wheelbarrows bring a fresh 2 ton total of $438 with them, so round up on the first order.^[1],[2]

Budget from the total, then trim it

The lowest rate for #57 Crushed Stone in any priced city is $54 a ton, and it only shows up at the large end of the ladder. A small job should never be budgeted on it. Take the total for your amount from the site and work back from there.^[1],[2]

Put everything on one truck. Two 5 ton deliveries of #57 Crushed Stone at $615 each cost well over one 10 ton delivery at $810. If the parking strip and the side path can wait for each other, order them together.^[1]

A split can help when the two jobs sit at opposite ends of the property. Ask in the delivery notes and we confirm by phone.^[2]

Use the plain stone where nobody sees it. A driveway needs its strength in the lower layer, so Road Base can carry the load and a thinner top of something better looking can finish it. The base rung is lower, and you buy less of the pricier stone.

Clear the way for the truck too. A dump truck needs a path about 12 feet wide and room to raise its bed, and the driver leaves one pile where you mark, provided the truck can reach the spot. A pile close to the work saves you barrow trips, which is the cost nobody prices.^[2]