Michigan
What running a truck through Michigan 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
$0.5240
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 7 of 47.
Costs you
8.73c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$57,180
May 2025. Rank 35 of 51.
Active carriers
14,300
Interstate, based in Michigan. Rank 17 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.5240 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $57,180, a tenth percentile of $40,280 and a ninetieth of $73,980. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
14,300 active interstate carriers running 208,350 trucks between them, at an average of 14.6 each.
How Michigan compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Michigan sits above it by $0.1559 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,599. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 42%.
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