Alaska
What running a truck through Alaska costs in fuel tax, what the state pays the people who drive them, and how many carriers actually call it home. Every figure is pulled from a public source and dated, and the per-mile numbers are worked at 6.0 mpg.
Fuel tax
None
Alaska is not an IFTA member.
Costs you
n/a
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$70,100
May 2025. Rank 1 of 51.
Active carriers
437
Interstate, based in Alaska. Rank 49 of 51.
Fuel tax
Alaska is outside IFTA, so nothing is filed for it and the miles are handled another way. What that means for a return.
Driver pay
A median of $70,100, a tenth percentile of $48,080 and a ninetieth of $90,610. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
437 active interstate carriers running 5,833 trucks between them, at an average of 13.3 each.
How Alaska compares
Alaska is not an IFTA member, so there is no rate to compare. The 47 states that publish one average $0.3681 a gallon. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 27%.
Other states