How a carrier gets bulk propane loads?

How much is $5mil hazmat liability? How much will it be when you add trucks?

 

I know during anhydrous season this fall we had multiple trucks running to the same locations and they could barely keep up with how fast the farmers were pulling it out. I’m not sure how many bottles we have. 20-some maybe? I haven’t had the desire to pull one.

 

The people who give out the loads to the carriers are the people you want to talk to. Their job title is usually "distribution coordinator" or "scheduler."

Every time you go to the loading rack ask the operator who that person is for their terminal.

 

Good luck. My company started with just one guy, one bulk plant and one truck. He built it up to over 1 million gallons of LP storage in Wisconsin with a dedicated rail line to feed more than 3 million gallons of LP a month to our largest bulk plaint. Even if you could get your own land and build yourself your own bulk plant, you'll still need to find a supplier to keep it full and you'll need to find your own customers. There is one ray of hope. We do business with a handful of independent haulers who negotiate a price and they buy a minimum 1 million gallons for 6 months to a year. They get to use our facilities to load and if they don't sell is all within the contracted time frame they are charged a daily storage fee of $75 till it's gone. Getting customers is the MOST important thing you could think of, you can hire consultants for everything else...