Ohio
What running a truck through Ohio 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
$0.4700
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 11 of 47.
Costs you
7.83c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$59,800
May 2025. Rank 22 of 51.
Active carriers
27,174
Interstate, based in Ohio. Rank 7 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.4700 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $59,800, a tenth percentile of $43,670 and a ninetieth of $77,650. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
27,174 active interstate carriers running 457,828 trucks between them, at an average of 16.8 each.
How Ohio compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Ohio sits above it by $0.1019 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $1,699. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 43%.
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