Montana
What running a truck through Montana 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
$0.2975
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 29 of 47.
Costs you
4.96c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,870
May 2025. Rank 25 of 51.
Active carriers
3,355
Interstate, based in Montana. Rank 43 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2975 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,870, a tenth percentile of $46,040 and a ninetieth of $74,120. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
3,355 active interstate carriers running 19,639 trucks between them, at an average of 5.9 each.
How Montana compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Montana sits below it by $0.0706 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,176. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 40%.
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