Arizona
What running a truck through Arizona 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
$0.2600
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 36 of 47.
Costs you
4.33c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,080
May 2025. Rank 32 of 51.
Active carriers
9,594
Interstate, based in Arizona. Rank 25 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2600 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,080, a tenth percentile of $42,580 and a ninetieth of $76,550. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
9,594 active interstate carriers running 692,607 trucks between them, at an average of 72.2 each.
How Arizona compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Arizona sits below it by $0.1081 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,801. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 53%.
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