Truck Shop
Senior Member
Not a overload but working that direction.
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Overload of the Day
- Thread starter Birken Vogt
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materthegreater
Senior Member
Nige
Senior Member
Watching video that something gives me the impression that they'd done that more than a few times before. It's a coal mine somewhere in Greece IIRC.
Nige
Senior Member
Same outfit if I'm not mistaken.
Nige
Senior Member
I get the impression the truck drivers are all sub-contractors..........
John C.
Senior Member
I would agree with that. I've never seen an outfit that would swing a bucket load of dirt toward the cab end of the truck. I also don't understand a trucker that would allow so much overload. Some of those trucks appeared to have side boards more that a foot high. I hate tothink of all the broken springs, broken suspension parts and tweaked truck frames on an operation like that. All I could figure is that the spoil was going down a highway somewhere and rock trucks couldn't be used.
Nige
Senior Member
No, it's just going from the excavator to a dump. It's simply the way they move dirt. The lignite coal is extracted by bucket-wheel excavator once the overburden is removed.
There are a lot of mines in Latin America using trucks such as that to move dirt. Labour is cheap, and you don't need the massive amount of road infrastructure required with a rock truck. Also if one goes down the overall effect on dirt-moving capacity is negligible. https://www.scania.com/uk/en/home/products/trucks/transport-operations/mining/in-pit-work.html
I'd be more worried about the hoe operator taking the cab off with the bucket then the overloading 
I would bet being it's offroad in the end it's way more profitable to overload them like that. At even 20% extra per load you can just run the trucks to destruction and I wouldn't be surprised at the low speeds if it didn't even cause much for issues and won't burn much extra fuel.
I would bet being it's offroad in the end it's way more profitable to overload them like that. At even 20% extra per load you can just run the trucks to destruction and I wouldn't be surprised at the low speeds if it didn't even cause much for issues and won't burn much extra fuel.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
As one large dirt mover explained to me years ago, the average dump truck was a evil necessity.
I'm sure there are several opinions about that.
I'm sure there are several opinions about that.
Willie B
Senior Member
That truck does NOT need power steering! Might want left & right brake pedals to steer when front wheels aren't touching the ground.
It makes you think about how good we have it here compared to other countries.
Nige
Senior Member
How so.?
Have you considered the possibility that it could be they’re doing it right and have been all along.?
I saw a truck smashed when a crane lost its load swinging it over the truck. There was nothing that made doing it that way the only way the operator was just in a hurry. No one got hurt other than the truck.
skyking1
Senior Member
Everyone in that video is probably making ( relative ) bank too.
Nige
Senior Member
They’re shifting some serious dirt, that’s for sure. I reckon about 2000 cu yd/hr.
If you watch past the first couple of minutes of the video the excavator starts loading over the rear of the trucks....
If you watch past the first couple of minutes of the video the excavator starts loading over the rear of the trucks....
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crane operator
Senior Member
If it won't all fit in the trailer, just strap it on the back with some ratchet straps. This was on I-70 out in central kansas.
crane operator
Senior Member
I was peripherally involved in loading this mess. We were replacing some equipment at the feed mill, they came out of the load out with this bulk bag full of feed, I could see air under the back tires of the loader tractor when he came out.
So he set the bag on the truck scale, and couldn't pick it back up with the loader tractor. Amazingly, their smaller loader tractor wouldn't pick it up either.
So I grabbed the 4 handles, and the one strap they already cut with the loader forks, ripped out. I gently set it back down on the scale, and asked "what's this going on?" The gray truck. The 1 ton single wheel gasser truck- flatbed with the bale bed. And they put it behind the axle, so they could unload it with a forklift - if they got it where it was going. It did make it to the unload - it had to be a miracle.
So he set the bag on the truck scale, and couldn't pick it back up with the loader tractor. Amazingly, their smaller loader tractor wouldn't pick it up either.
So I grabbed the 4 handles, and the one strap they already cut with the loader forks, ripped out. I gently set it back down on the scale, and asked "what's this going on?" The gray truck. The 1 ton single wheel gasser truck- flatbed with the bale bed. And they put it behind the axle, so they could unload it with a forklift - if they got it where it was going. It did make it to the unload - it had to be a miracle.