Do tanker loads show up on normal load boards?

Never seen any

 

Very rarely. There are tanker loads on bulk loads, and sometimes on the trucker path load app, truck loads. It's mostly a pick up the phone and call bulk liquid brokers directly.

 

It's too specialized for general load boards unfortunately. What are you set up for?

 

If you wanted to haul asphalt, it could be done. Maybe propane, or fuel. Production chemical and such, man I would not even know where to begin.

 

Best bet is you want to go tanker is to find an established company and lease on. Doesn't have to be a mega there are a few smaller companies splattered out threw the us.

 

Wow....where to begin. You could do asphalt, but it's seasonal and you can't really use the tank for anything else. Propane can be done, but again it's seasonal, BUT is the weather is right, you can load ammonia in late spring and early fall. The downside is a MC 331 tank is BIG $$$$$$$$$ a 20 year old used one with inspections runs about $80,000. A 50+ yr old with updated inspections and run $35-50,000.

You can certainly pick up a decent used 307/407 for under $20,000. If you don't have a good 5+ years running chemicals, it would be really hard to do profitably. Without you knowing all the different chemicals and what can be loaded after each other, you would really struggle or worse, load something that makes the tank unusable for anything else.
There are certainly lots of loads out there for someone who's willing to hustle, but after looking into it myself, I didn't want the headache. And the payoff wasn't really worth the risks or hassles.

 

Smoothbore food grade may be an easier choice to setting up with a loadboard.

I wonder if that could profitable? Not the actual product or trucking, but a loadboard type thing for food tankers.

Load sugar today, deliver tomorrow, wash, load palm oil the next day, and deliver. Wash. So on and so on.