Oklahoma
What running a truck through Oklahoma 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
$0.1900
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 47 of 47.
Costs you
3.17c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$54,410
May 2025. Rank 42 of 51.
Active carriers
7,899
Interstate, based in Oklahoma. Rank 31 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.1900 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $54,410, a tenth percentile of $37,420 and a ninetieth of $80,330. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
7,899 active interstate carriers running 132,281 trucks between them, at an average of 16.7 each.
How Oklahoma compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Oklahoma sits below it by $0.1781 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,968. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 44%.
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