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.
For a typical 80,000-lb. truck in over-the-road service, the sum of all state and federal road-user fees will be about 8.33 cents/mile. Medium-and heavy-truck users paid 13.8 per cent of all Michigan road-user fees in Fiscal 2012: MDOT Intermodal Policy Division Policy/trucking/Truck Weights Michigan_3_21_13.doc Page 4.