Massachusetts
What running a truck through Massachusetts 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
$0.2400
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 38 of 47.
Costs you
4.00c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$63,030
May 2025. Rank 5 of 51.
Active carriers
14,445
Interstate, based in Massachusetts. Rank 15 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2400 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $63,030, a tenth percentile of $47,080 and a ninetieth of $78,480. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
14,445 active interstate carriers running 332,069 trucks between them, at an average of 23.0 each.
How Massachusetts compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Massachusetts sits below it by $0.1281 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,134. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 41%.
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