Iowa
What running a truck through Iowa 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
$0.3250
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 22 of 47.
Costs you
5.42c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,070
May 2025. Rank 33 of 51.
Active carriers
11,313
Interstate, based in Iowa. Rank 21 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3250 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,070, a tenth percentile of $42,390 and a ninetieth of $77,910. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
11,313 active interstate carriers running 99,761 trucks between them, at an average of 8.8 each.
How Iowa compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Iowa sits below it by $0.0431 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $718. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 43%.
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