Utah
What running a truck through Utah 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
$0.3790
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 16 of 47.
Costs you
6.32c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,620
May 2025. Rank 13 of 51.
Active carriers
6,580
Interstate, based in Utah. Rank 33 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3790 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,620, a tenth percentile of $44,320 and a ninetieth of $76,360. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
6,580 active interstate carriers running 135,442 trucks between them, at an average of 20.6 each.
How Utah compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Utah sits above it by $0.0109 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $182. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 41%.
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