North Dakota
What running a truck through North Dakota 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
$0.2300
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 41 of 47.
Costs you
3.83c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,910
May 2025. Rank 11 of 51.
Active carriers
3,784
Interstate, based in North Dakota. Rank 42 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2300 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,910, a tenth percentile of $47,990 and a ninetieth of $83,330. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
3,784 active interstate carriers running 34,497 trucks between them, at an average of 9.1 each.
How North Dakota compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so North Dakota sits below it by $0.1381 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,301. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 37%.
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