Indiana
What running a truck through Indiana 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
$0.6300
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 4 of 47.
Costs you
10.50c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,290
May 2025. Rank 17 of 51.
Active carriers
19,142
Interstate, based in Indiana. Rank 11 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.6300 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,290, a tenth percentile of $42,060 and a ninetieth of $79,000. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
19,142 active interstate carriers running 279,576 trucks between them, at an average of 14.6 each.
How Indiana compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Indiana sits above it by $0.2619 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $4,366. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 43%.
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