Cubic Capacity of Truck

amen

Morning,

does anyone know the cubic capacity of those large trucks that typically deliver top soil (normally around 20 tons in a load)
I think they have two rear axials?

thanks

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peasant

Which cubic capacity

Cubic centimeters for the engine, or cubic meters for the load?

And what's the load? Blocks of styrofoam or concrete blocks?

amen

cubic capacity of the load (assume soil)
neighbour has applied for planning permission for a waste dump
over a certain area. claims only 2/3 trucks a day will and fill the area in in 1 year (approx 1000 trucks).

I can get the cubic area of the site and then I went to see how many trucks required.

I'm thinking at least 10,000!

Paulzx

Off the top of my head i think you can allow for 8 ton weight capacity per axle. So if they have two year axles plus obviously one front one thats 24 ton capacity. I think thats only a general calculation though

sesswhat

Standard 4-axle rigid construction tipper capacity is 20 tonnes in weight, 15 cubic metres in volume. Articulated trailers can carry bigger loads.

Lorries specially designed to carry waste ie rubbish, can of course carry much bigger volumes in high sided bodies as the same volume of rubbish is much lighter than soil, sand etc.

unkel

20 tonnes weight of top soil takes up about 16M3 in volume

(density of dug up top soil is about 1.25kg/l)

amen

thanks for all replies just what I needed