Mine Truck

Century Mine Trip 2006

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[danthehitman741]

@assandthem u have no idea how boring it is...good money but not worth ur sanity either u love it or hate it..soon i wont be doing this anymore some people like it alot but im not one of em...

[175yam1]

@assandthem yes boring but big pay cheq!

[stafy3282]

@lifted70 thats a komatsu 630E. the other trucks onsite are 830E's and are bigger than a 797 cat truck.

[epistte]

@glennrickard1958 I think that the next step in haul trucks will be a bottom dump haul truck/trailer, but it would use a 797B/282 class electric truck as the tractor and the trailer having a pony engine and wheel motors. It would allow the use of the current tires, but allow a 500+ ton capacity. It would naturally use batteries to store the electricity generated by dynamic braking, thus allowing the extra power to pull a loaded truck up a steep haul road.

[glennrickard1958]

@glenn3rd2004 Larger haul trucks may be in the future but those 750-to-1000+ton-payload trucks may be at least 15-25 years 'down the road' as technologies advance slowly but surely. Perhaps a truck designed to haul 500 tons could be on the market in about 5 years or so....

[lifted70]

thats a little guy what is it a 777 climb in a 793 thats a nevada haul truck

[MrChris0123]

sounds like a monster lol

[glenn3rd2004]

Even bigger mine trucks are planned in the near future that make those shown look small. They will boast: 8000+HP diesel-electric engines, all-wheel-drive, duplex rear axles, 10 70+inch-diameter wheels each fitted with 17+foot-diameter tires, and carrying capacities of 750 to 1000+ tons. They will also boast these approximate dimensions: 35 feet wide x 35 feet tall (with the dumper down) x 75-to-80 feet long. They will be used for oil sands and construction projects as well as mining.

[Hellknight3d]

It's like driving a bungalow with wheels. lol

[Acosmicist]

Yeah...  used....

Try 2.5 million.