Growth & wages: More than 57 percent in this field are women and itâs a field thatâs expected to grow 22 percent in the next 10 years. The average median salary, according to Payscale, is $81,541, with the highest pay concentrated in the San Francisco area.
$1.38 The average per mile operating cost for the trucking industry. $180,000 The average total yearly cost of operating a commercial truck. The largest operating expense is diesel fuel. A commercial truck can easily consume more than $70,000 of diesel fuel per year.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the 2017 optional standard mileage rates and beginning on January 1, 2017, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or panel truck will be: 1  53.5 cents per mile for business miles driven (down from 54 cents in 2016)