New Jersey
What running a truck through New Jersey 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
$0.5610
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 6 of 47.
Costs you
9.35c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$63,570
May 2025. Rank 4 of 51.
Active carriers
25,369
Interstate, based in New Jersey. Rank 8 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.5610 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $63,570, a tenth percentile of $47,950 and a ninetieth of $90,310. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
25,369 active interstate carriers running 142,378 trucks between them, at an average of 5.6 each.
How New Jersey compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so New Jersey sits above it by $0.1929 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $3,216. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 52%.
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