West Virginia
What running a truck through West Virginia 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
$0.3570
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 18 of 47.
Costs you
5.95c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$49,480
May 2025. Rank 50 of 51.
Active carriers
3,815
Interstate, based in West Virginia. Rank 41 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.3570 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $49,480, a tenth percentile of $36,350 and a ninetieth of $72,230. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
3,815 active interstate carriers running 21,048 trucks between them, at an average of 5.5 each.
How West Virginia compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so West Virginia sits below it by $0.0111 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $184. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 38%.
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