2 - Dumping Time
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Practice Questions
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What are the three main types of hauling units?
💡 Hint: Think of the shapes of the trucks and how they unload.
Define gravimetric capacity.
💡 Hint: It relates to how overloaded machinery can face damage.
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What is one factor that affects dumping time?
💡 Hint: Recall our discussion on different trucks.
True or False: Overloading a truck can lead to higher operational costs.
💡 Hint: Think about how heavy loads affect your tires.
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A site requires trucks to dump wet sand, which is known to be denser. If the gravimetric capacity of a truck is 15 tons, and each load weights 10 tons, how would you calculate the efficient dumping time considering the congestion from multiple trucks waiting to unload?
💡 Hint: Think of how one truck's delay can snowball as others line up to dump.
Given two types of dump trucks where the bottom dump truck leads the unloading process with a time of 3 minutes and the rear dump takes 5 minutes, if you have 10 loads to dump under favorable conditions, calculate the efficiency ratio between the two.
💡 Hint: Efficiency is all about how fast you can complete the tasks at hand!
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