Which Tanker Freight is the Most Recession Resistant?

People have to eat right? Cooking oil?

 

Milk tankers

 

I agree with the above posts; milk and food.
Foodliner is food grade tanker work.
Carry Transit is also food grade tankers.

 

Gasoline. There might be a huge difference in gasoline sales in the city you live in. Some areas will vary in sales while others will stay the same. For example Las Vegas sold a lot of gasoline on the weekend and through the week it was locals who bought the gas. In a city where there's no real attractions you'll see the gasoline sales will remain the same. People go to work and drive on weekends. We would total our sales and you'd be surprised to see there's not that much difference in a year of sales.

 

Hauling lime to coal fired power plants is very steady work. But curiously enough, most of our plants are shut down for economic reasons right now. They blame the natural gas prices being low. Not sure why gas prices have anything to do with it, but...

 

Low gas prices means its cheaper to run the gas turbine type power plants v the coal plants.


A nother one that seems pretty steady at least here in the northwest is running chemicals to the paper mills.

 

Milk is probably the only commodity that would not be as affected.

Here's why,

Oils and sugar come from the ports from other countries. If the economy falls out and we can't buy imported liquid products.... no work.

But milk,

A cow produces milk 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. A cow don't give a hoot if were in a recession. The milk will be there 2-3 times a day and it needs milking and hauling away.

 

Ah butt in a slowdown the price off milk will go down as will the rates being paid to the truckers.
So you might have work but at lesser rate.

 

Milk already pays horrible wages. Usually it's by the load and too which dairy you go. It's literally bottom of the barrel wages for milk hauling. My dad would bring home 6-700 bucks after 6 days of work. 12-16 hours a day.