Nevada
What running a truck through Nevada 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
$0.2700
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 34 of 47.
Costs you
4.50c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$62,290
May 2025. Rank 6 of 51.
Active carriers
5,448
Interstate, based in Nevada. Rank 37 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2700 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $62,290, a tenth percentile of $45,860 and a ninetieth of $83,090. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
5,448 active interstate carriers running 130,950 trucks between them, at an average of 24.0 each.
How Nevada compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Nevada sits below it by $0.0981 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,634. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 54%.
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