Connecticut
What running a truck through Connecticut 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
$0.4990
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 8 of 47.
Costs you
8.32c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,490
May 2025. Rank 14 of 51.
Active carriers
8,366
Interstate, based in Connecticut. Rank 27 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.4990 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,490, a tenth percentile of $47,160 and a ninetieth of $77,360. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
8,366 active interstate carriers running 98,693 trucks between them, at an average of 11.8 each.
How Connecticut compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Connecticut sits above it by $0.1309 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,182. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 48%.
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