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Transport to Destination Site

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Hauling heavy loads old equipment...A day in the life of hauling rock!

What happens here

With the load secured and verified, the dump truck exits the quarry and embarks on the journey to the destination site. The travel involves careful driving on public roads, both main highways and rural routes, emphasizing the responsibility associated with heavy haulage of materials.

Goal: Drive the heavily loaded dump truck from the quarry to the intended material drop-off location.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck

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then we pull on forward to a window right up here where we'll pay normally or if you got a commercial account you just roll on [Music] you can hear the same grilling now we got a load on there's a pretty big Hill on approach to my house said we'll kind of have to run it up a little bit and it'll slow down a whole lot as we go over here beside us is the asphalt plant and they take old chipped up asphalt grind it up and recycle it and make new asphalt out of it so kind of we've got to build up speed in order to climb the hill get to the top without having to drop into a lower here if we get up to the top of the hill right up here and this car keeps going slow won't let us build up speed you want to drop into a lower gear which would be about 38 miles an hour so if you think about it while you're out on the road and there seems like there's a truck kind of coming up on your butt as you're going down a hill or there's a reason he's trying to build up momentum to pull himself back up we've got another big hill coming up here [Music] all right so we're coming up on the hill [Music] and just about drift up over the next hill there we go cleared that one nice we got one more heel it's kind of like a roller coaster right there here it's the road I live on all right you hear that truck bogging down got the pedal to the floor here guys just basically has to have a pedal to the floor to keep us from having to downshift you have to downshift you got to slow down a little bit engines work and 53,500 some pounds I believe right in here anywhere wherever whatever makes it easiest for you all right now

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