Earthwork volume and haul cycle planner
Truck loads, cycles per day and trucks needed to move a volume of earth on schedule.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full haul plan you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
- Every other tool for the same role, in the same plan
- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: haul plan
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
834 loads with 5 trucks: about 8.8 days at $5.28 a bank CY before markup
- Loose volume
- 15,000 CY
- Truck loads
- 834
- Loads per truck per day
- 19
- Loads needed per day
- 83.4
- Trucks needed
- 5
- Daily production
- 1,200 bank CY per day
Loader and truck balance
- Time to fill one truck
- 2.7 min (18 CY at 400 loose CY an hour)
- Cycle split
- 2.7 min loading, 2.0 min dumping, 23.3 min driving
- Travel speed your cycle implies
- 15.5 mph average over 6.0 miles there and back
- Loads the loader can fill
- 22.2 an hour
- Loads 5 trucks can carry
- 10.7 an hour
- Trucks to keep the loader busy
- 11 trucks
and 1 more lines
Also on the sheet
- Schedule · 4 lines, starting with “Loads a day, real”
- Cost sheet · 7 lines, starting with “Trucks”
- What if: fleet size · 4 lines, starting with “4 trucks”
The plain-words read of this example
Moving 12,000 bank CY takes 834 loads; the loader fills one in about 2.7 minutes and the 5 trucks carry 10.7 loads an hour. The trucks limit the job: the loader stands idle about 31 min an hour; 11 trucks would keep it busy. Finishes in about 8.8 days with 5 trucks, inside the 10 days. The haul costs about $63,338.11, $5.28 a bank CY, or $6.07 with 15% overhead and profit. Time real cycles on site before you commit the bid, using the handbook method to match trucks to the loader.
4 cited sources
- Caterpillar Performance Handbook (edition 49) (Caterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer))
- 29 CFR 1926.602, Material handling equipment (earthmoving equipment) (OSHA)
- Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (weekly on-highway prices) (US Energy Information Administration)
- 2022 Construction General Permit (CGP) (US Environmental Protection Agency)
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.