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[aberhan78]

i wanna drive that my city trafic :=)

[Gavin84w]

Glenn, your ramblings about these 1000 ton capacity trucks are nothing but utter BS mate. Larger trucks are definently not the next wave to lower costs, read Autonomy

[throttlehappy346]

trucking is awesome

[CubaVids]

@Gavin84w Hehe. Well however they get them there, it seems to work.

[Gavin84w]

@CubaVids Uhh, that maybe fine in Canada but what about the rest of the world, remember there was a key word i used there "economically" the tyres might end up at mine sites in the middle of butt fuck nowhere but they have to go through a lot of places to get there and that is what i am talking about. Heck why don,t they just send 797,s to site fully assembled-see where i am coming from

[CubaVids]

@Gavin84w re: "Sure simple economics but there is a lot more to it than that, how do you transport economically 15 ft diameter tyres?" Uhh... straight up and down would be my first attempt.

[EDHINDHAUGH]

Drove them for 17 years, BORING"

[bluecoatscheesypoofs]

@Gavin84w  Ya but even so, the production, The lower fuel costs, less drivers, and less cost for # of trucks should outweigh the costs of anything smaller. But I will admit, They won't get much bigger even if they do make bigger trucks.

[Gavin84w]

@bluecoatscheesypoofs Sure simple economics but there is a lot more to it than that, how do you transport economically 15 ft diameter tyres?

This will be the last wave of size class for mining trucks, autonomy will be the next way to lower operating costs, remove 4 operators from the payroll per truck/year and tell me what that saves on a 50 truck fleet

[bluecoatscheesypoofs]

@Gavin84w Well its simple economics. The larger haulage capacity per truck, the less number of trucks the company has to buy to keep the rock/coal/material moving. As well as lower fuel costs for 1 truck than it is for 2 smaller trucks. . I'm no expert but I would say its a definate solution for lowering costs

[jewpiles]

@bacadien That's all? Up hin my neck, haul-truck drivers start at 45/hr

[jewpiles]

@djnarodnjakk I hear it's realllly boring.