Let us say we are all loading the same material, stockpiled compacted clay. All done with excavators, no front end loaders. How do you guys figure what amount goes into each style of truck? Do you go by the stated yardage of the bucket measurements ? Do you "strike" each bucket? Is each bucket holding nearly twice what it should as you load ? Do you then multiply by how many buckets are loaded into each style of truck to end with a yardage of material moved figure for the job? Thanks in advance. Ron
Normally when the Truck Driver starts screaming "I'm overloaded" we know that is enough lol On a more serious note, all our front end loaders and most of our excavators have onboard weighing equipment also capable of printing a ticket showing the weight loaded, this equipment does away with the need for a weighbridge, it also tells you what volume and what material has been loaded, ours automatically send the information into the office for Invoicing purposes as well. We do have problems from time to time but it is nearly always an input error from the operator, these things happen. Nearly all trucks here in the UK have onboard weighing equipment installed due to the huge fines handed out if you are caught overloaded.
tandem are usually level full, front to back. This is generally a legal load. You start humping it up to where it's visible, then you have the DOT checking your trucks a lot. End dumps the same basically, but I stay back about 6' to 8' from the front of the trailer.
Some jobs we will send a few trucks to the scales. This is to get an average on the amount of material be moved.
Do most of you equate 2,000 lbs per yard of clay ?
We would load a truck with 10 buckets and then take it to get weighed. Work the math backwards and you will have how much each pass weights. Then you can load each truck pretty close to the legal limit without going over but not wasting truck time.
2800 to 3000 lbs per yard , we have wet heavy clay.