Maine
What running a truck through Maine 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
$0.3120
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 26 of 47.
Costs you
5.20c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$57,050
May 2025. Rank 37 of 51.
Active carriers
2,416
Interstate, based in Maine. Rank 47 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3120 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $57,050, a tenth percentile of $40,810 and a ninetieth of $71,100. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
2,416 active interstate carriers running 118,192 trucks between them, at an average of 48.9 each.
How Maine compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Maine sits below it by $0.0561 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $934. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 40%.
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