Oregon
What running a truck through Oregon 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
None
Oregon taxes weight and distance, not gallons.
Costs you
n/a
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$61,980
May 2025. Rank 9 of 51.
Active carriers
8,099
Interstate, based in Oregon. Rank 30 of 51.
Fuel tax
Oregon taxes heavy vehicles by weight and mile rather than by the gallon, so there is no rate in the matrix. What that changes.
Driver pay
A median of $61,980, a tenth percentile of $47,700 and a ninetieth of $81,220. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
8,099 active interstate carriers running 113,463 trucks between them, at an average of 14.0 each.
How Oregon compares
Oregon publishes no per-gallon diesel rate, taxing heavy vehicles by weight and distance instead, so there is no rate to compare. The 47 states that publish one average $0.3681 a gallon. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 45%.
Other states