New Mexico
What running a truck through New Mexico 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
$0.2100
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 44 of 47.
Costs you
3.50c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$50,500
May 2025. Rank 49 of 51.
Active carriers
4,138
Interstate, based in New Mexico. Rank 40 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2100 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $50,500, a tenth percentile of $38,540 and a ninetieth of $65,990. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
4,138 active interstate carriers running 22,312 trucks between them, at an average of 5.4 each.
How New Mexico compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so New Mexico sits below it by $0.1581 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,634. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 44%.
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