Basics – Hauling

🚛 EVE Online: Hauling & Transport Guide (2025)

Hauling is the business of moving goods—minerals, ships, modules, or commodities—from one location to another. Haulers support markets, miners, industry players, and corporations. This guide will walk you through what you need, how to do it, and how to stay safe.

🧰 1. What You Need to Start Hauling

🚀 Required Skills

At minimum, train:

  • Spaceship Command I
  • Racial Industrial I (e.g., Amarr Industrial, Minmatar Industrial)
  • Hull Upgrades III+ (to fit tank mods)
  • Mechanics (improves overall durability)

Optional:

  • Warp Drive Operation (for capacitor efficiency)
  • Evasive Maneuvering (better agility)
  • Transport Ships (for advanced hauling)

🚚 2. Best Hauling Ships by Type

🧱 T1 Industrial Ships (Alpha Friendly)

  • Bestower (Amarr): Large cargo, poor agility.
  • Mammoth (Minmatar): Good balance of capacity and speed.
  • Iteron Mark V (Gallente): Excellent high-volume hauler.
  • Badger (Caldari): Strong shield tank potential.

🛑 Vulnerable in high-sec to suicide gankers due to lack of tank. Avoid autopilot.

🛡️ T2 Transport Ships (Omega Only)

  • Blockade Runners: Fast, agile, cloakable
    • Viator, Prowler, Crane, Prorator
    • Low cargo, high survivability
  • Deep Space Transports (DSTs): Big tanks, huge cargo, not cloakable
    • Impel, Mastodon, Bustard, Occator

🚀 Freighters (T1 Capitals)

  • Obelisk, Fenrir, Providence, Charon
    • Massive cargo holds (up to 1M m³)
    • Incredibly slow, no modules, no mid slots
    • Can be ganked in high-sec

🛰️ Jump Freighters (T2 Capitals, Omega Only)

  • Can use Cynosural Fields to jump between systems.
  • Used by alliances and null-sec corps for bulk logistics.

📦 3. What Can You Haul?

  • Ore/minerals from mining sites
  • Ships and fittings for sale
  • Loot from missions
  • PI (Planetary Interaction) materials
  • Market goods for trade/flip
  • Alliance supplies (fuel, doctrine ships)

🧭 4. Planning Your Route

🔍 Use Tools Like:

📌 Tips:

  • Avoid major gank systems like Uedama, Niarja, Jita–Perimeter if possible.
  • Use set destination in Autopilot, but fly manually (never autopilot through high-risk systems).
  • Plan safespots and insta-dock bookmarks in trade hubs like Jita.

🔐 5. Staying Safe

🔴 Avoid Ganking:

  • Never fly with more ISK than your tank is worth
    (rule of thumb: don’t carry more than 100M ISK in a paper-thin hauler)
  • Fit Warp Core Stabilizers or Inertial Stabilizers
  • Use cargo expanders only if tank is adequate
  • Consider armor plates/shield extenders/resists

🟡 Watch for:

  • Tornado/Catalyst gankers in 0.5–0.9 systems
  • Smartbombers near gate perches
  • Suicide tackle ships like Thrashers

💰 6. Making Money as a Hauler

🏪 Trade Hauling

Buy low in one station, haul, and sell high at another.

📦 Courier Contracts

  • Accept contracts from players or corps
  • Requires collateral (you lose it if you fail)
  • Good for passive income
  • Join services like:
    • PushX
    • Red Frog Freight
    • Haulers Channel

🛠️ Corp/Alliance Logistics

  • Haul fuel, ships, and loot
  • Sometimes reimbursed or paid a salary

📋 8. Quick Tips for Success

  • Don’t autopilot with cargo—warp manually.
  • Learn about insta-dock and insta-undock bookmarks.
  • Don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose.
  • Join hauling channels in-game:
    • Haulers Channel
    • Courier’s Lounge
  • Courier contracts with low profit but low risk are good for beginners.

🧠 Want to Advance Further?

Specialize in wormhole hauling (high risk, high reward).

Train into Jump Freighters and support your alliance.

Run PI or moon mining operations and haul materials to market.