Maryland
What running a truck through Maryland 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
$0.4745
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 10 of 47.
Costs you
7.91c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$59,360
May 2025. Rank 23 of 51.
Active carriers
17,972
Interstate, based in Maryland. Rank 12 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.4745 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $59,360, a tenth percentile of $43,670 and a ninetieth of $79,130. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
17,972 active interstate carriers running 113,755 trucks between them, at an average of 6.3 each.
How Maryland compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Maryland sits above it by $0.1064 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,774. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 47%.
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