New Hampshire
What running a truck through New Hampshire 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
$0.2220
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 42 of 47.
Costs you
3.70c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,280
May 2025. Rank 18 of 51.
Active carriers
4,169
Interstate, based in New Hampshire. Rank 39 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2220 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,280, a tenth percentile of $47,370 and a ninetieth of $74,200. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
4,169 active interstate carriers running 24,296 trucks between them, at an average of 5.8 each.
How New Hampshire compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so New Hampshire sits below it by $0.1461 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,434. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 39%.
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