Delaware
What running a truck through Delaware 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
$0.2200
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 43 of 47.
Costs you
3.67c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$57,590
May 2025. Rank 34 of 51.
Active carriers
3,272
Interstate, based in Delaware. Rank 44 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2200 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $57,590, a tenth percentile of $46,850 and a ninetieth of $69,770. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
3,272 active interstate carriers running 16,761 trucks between them, at an average of 5.1 each.
How Delaware compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Delaware sits below it by $0.1481 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,468. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 45%.
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