Miners Moving Freight

Rocky stepped in to a puddle when he mixed things up regarding trading and hauling in New Eden. He first thought he needed a bunch of new skills to buy freight, but that is not the case. He learned to buy his freight from the market and to haul it quickly to the highest paying customer.

Hauling freight is a far more simple process than he realized.

There are no broker skills needed to haul freight in New Eden. You don’t need the Daytrading Skill, or other trade skills, to get started with hauling. You buy you freight one load at a time. You make one short term investment with each load you haul.

Hauling freight is an integral part of the New Eden economy. It is how products move from producer to customer with few middle men and limited storage. It is a very efficient delivery system as long as there are haulers available. That is where the Lone Miner fits in to the picture.

When a Lone Miner adds freight hauling to their income stream they diversify their income sources. Rocky works on the basis that it is best to have three sources of income. When work in one area gets slow, he moves to another. Rocky hauls freight, mines, and does salvage to create his income.

Diversity in your income producing activities reduces the boredom that comes with sitting on asteroid belts for long periods of time.

Rocky started by hauling freight that was inexpensive. He began by hauling water, oxygen, and soil. These are general commodities every station uses. He would check what each station he visited needed and sold. He found more products he could haul as his investment funds increased.

To find what a station sells and needs go to the upper right hand corner of your screen. Click on the information button for the station. Locate their market activity tab on the page that opens. Look for commodities for items they are selling and at the bottom of the page for what they need (Demand).


Rocky started with 1mil Isk in investment money on Day One and by Day Three of his hauling had over 20mil in his wallet. Putting his Mammoth to use hauling freight greatly decreased how much time it now takes Rocky to earn Isk.

A new Lone Miner can haul freight in his Probe and make money at it. You don’t need to wait to have a Mammoth.

Rocky now earns Isk hauling freight at the same rate of income that mining ore in a Covetor produces per hour. Using a ship costing 100k, Rocky now has earnings per hour in the Covetor range. Point is, hauling freight did not need months of skill training or 35mil Isk to make it happen.

Hauling is something you do as a part of mining and moving freight. It is hard to value what that part of the total transaction is worth. You make your money in hauling by your investment in your load. You sell it for more than you buy it for and that is how you make money hauling.

Try it out, it works.

Laters. ET