Nebraska
What running a truck through Nebraska 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
$0.3180
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 25 of 47.
Costs you
5.30c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,390
May 2025. Rank 31 of 51.
Active carriers
8,357
Interstate, based in Nebraska. Rank 28 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3180 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,390, a tenth percentile of $40,150 and a ninetieth of $81,790. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
8,357 active interstate carriers running 91,435 trucks between them, at an average of 10.9 each.
How Nebraska compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Nebraska sits below it by $0.0501 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $834. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 42%.
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