Minnesota
What running a truck through Minnesota 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
$0.3260
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 21 of 47.
Costs you
5.43c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$61,990
May 2025. Rank 8 of 51.
Active carriers
16,661
Interstate, based in Minnesota. Rank 13 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3260 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $61,990, a tenth percentile of $45,910 and a ninetieth of $81,830. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
16,661 active interstate carriers running 120,982 trucks between them, at an average of 7.3 each.
How Minnesota compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Minnesota sits below it by $0.0421 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $701. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 41%.
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