Export by truck?

[Joman]

I'm playing on hard difficulty and try to earn some money with the export of oil via truck, because I can't effort trains.
Is this a good idea, to use trucks for this? I don't know, what the trucks pay for diesel...

The plan was to sell electricity from a gas power plant, but I have more oil, than it needs.

[Bailing_Out]

I've been making money using trucks to do this on the map I'm playing now. You may want to route them different if possible cause they tend to cause traffic jams with many trucks doing it.

[Joman]

Thanks for the reply.
I don't have so many. No jams.
I also bought a chemical plant now to make use of the oil.

[longshots444]

Originally posted by Joman:

I also bought a chemical plant now to make use of the oil.

Lovely. And now the money will start rolling in.
Regarding transport, don't forget to keep an eye on production output ratios for the two products - they are very different!

[Joman]

Yes, I take a loan and buy some more chemical plants. Inflation is my friend!

[Pfirsich1966]

Originally posted by Joman:

Yes, I take a loan and buy some more chemical plants. Inflation is my friend!

Chemical plants require four raw materials, which will clog up your roads.
Make do with one and try to build a refinery to sell fuel and bitumen.

[Joman]

But the chemical plants do not need much. Also my people don't have cars... The traffic situation is OK.
Now I have three chemical plants. I already had a refinery in mind, because I have huge expenses for diesel.

[4X-Fan]

Chemicals are probably indeed a perfect export good for trucks - you have low volume for a high price, while the input ressources are cheap and needed in low quantities only. Most of the gain in value comes from your people working in the chem plant.
The only downside they have is that you need many chemical factories to get some quantity, as the troughput of each of them is only small (unless you use modded ones of course).

On top it never hurts to produce your own chemicals - sooner or later you need them in so many places in your republic anyway.

[Joman]

It's a big advantage to not have to buy chemicals for the water treament.

[fancho22]

if you already have chemical i would say you to invest in fabrics and cloth factory , its low volume too and can be transporte by truck , its a really good monney maker