Colorado
What running a truck through Colorado 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
$0.3350
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 19 of 47.
Costs you
5.58c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$61,500
May 2025. Rank 10 of 51.
Active carriers
9,359
Interstate, based in Colorado. Rank 26 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3350 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $61,500, a tenth percentile of $47,010 and a ninetieth of $80,570. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
9,359 active interstate carriers running 129,840 trucks between them, at an average of 13.9 each.
How Colorado compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Colorado sits below it by $0.0331 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $551. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 46%.
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