Liquid-bulk tanker work for owner-operators is certainly one of those freight niches where there are many niches within the niche, if you will, as Overdrive's Partners in Business guide makes clear. Depending on the type of tanker needed for what you're hauling, with all manner of regulated specialties therein, a cost of $65K or much more for the trailer no doubt makes the often-better rates and, sometimes, income than in general freight understandable.
For tanker owner-operators, those costs are higher, too, of course, also sometimes requiring extra credentialing for hazmat work, though most leased owners don't bring their own trailers to a leasing fleet's operation.
If you're active in the niche today, weigh in on the two questions in the quick survey that follows. Your insight will help inform reporting on the work of liquid-bulk haulers -- Overdrive's last close look at the niche was six years ago, and much has changed no doubt. What's been your experience?
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