Vermont
What running a truck through Vermont 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
$0.3100
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 28 of 47.
Costs you
5.17c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,830
May 2025. Rank 12 of 51.
Active carriers
1,669
Interstate, based in Vermont. Rank 48 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3100 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,830, a tenth percentile of $48,900 and a ninetieth of $74,700. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
1,669 active interstate carriers running 9,375 trucks between them, at an average of 5.6 each.
How Vermont compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Vermont sits below it by $0.0581 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $968. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 37%.
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