Wyoming
What running a truck through Wyoming 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
$0.2400
Per gallon, 4Q2026. Rank 40 of 47.
Costs you
4.00c
Per mile at 6.0 mpg.
Median driver pay
$60,310
May 2025. Rank 16 of 51.
Active carriers
2,812
Interstate, based in Wyoming. Rank 46 of 51.
Fuel tax
$0.2400 a gallon, what that is per mile, and what it costs over a run.
Driver pay
A median of $60,310, a tenth percentile of $45,860 and a ninetieth of $84,670. What the spread says about the market.
Carriers
2,812 active interstate carriers running 15,219 trucks between them, at an average of 5.4 each.
How Wyoming compares
The average diesel rate across the 47 states that publish one is $0.3681, so Wyoming sits below it by $0.1281 a gallon. Over 100,000 miles at 6.0 mpg that difference is $2,134. Nationally, 47% of active interstate carriers run one truck; here it is 38%.
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