Illinois
What running a truck through Illinois 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
$0.7380
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 3 of 47.
Costs you
12.30c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,320
May 2025. Rank 15 of 51.
Active carriers
35,481
Interstate, based in Illinois. Rank 3 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.7380 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,320, a tenth percentile of $39,710 and a ninetieth of $86,300. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
35,481 active interstate carriers running 403,322 trucks between them, at an average of 11.4 each.
How Illinois compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Illinois sits above it by $0.3699 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $6,166. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 41%.
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