New York
What running a truck through New York 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
$0.3805
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 15 of 47.
Costs you
6.34c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$62,050
May 2025. Rank 7 of 51.
Active carriers
20,618
Interstate, based in New York. Rank 10 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3805 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $62,050, a tenth percentile of $47,880 and a ninetieth of $88,100. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
20,618 active interstate carriers running 201,327 trucks between them, at an average of 9.8 each.
How New York compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so New York sits above it by $0.0124 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $207. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 43%.
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