Pennsylvania
What running a truck through Pennsylvania 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
$0.7410
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 2 of 47.
Costs you
12.35c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$58,580
May 2025. Rank 30 of 51.
Active carriers
33,897
Interstate, based in Pennsylvania. Rank 4 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.7410 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $58,580, a tenth percentile of $43,560 and a ninetieth of $78,330. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
33,897 active interstate carriers running 538,114 trucks between them, at an average of 15.9 each.
How Pennsylvania compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Pennsylvania sits above it by $0.3729 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $6,216. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 46%.
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