Ready-Mix Truck Load Planner
Plan full and partial truck loads, total truck count, and approximate delivery spacing for a placement.
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Key takeaways
- Translate a total concrete order into truck-load and delivery-sequencing information.
- Producer dispatching, traffic, batch time, pump rate, washout, access, and allowable discharge time must be coordinated directly with the ready-mix supplier.
Ready-Mix Truck Load Planner
Translate a total concrete order into truck-load and delivery-sequencing information.
What this calculator does
Translate a total concrete order into truck-load and delivery-sequencing information.
The tool calculates full-load equivalents, required truck count after rounding up, last-load size, and an approximate elapsed delivery window based on the entered interval.
How to use the result
Producer dispatching, traffic, batch time, pump rate, washout, access, and allowable discharge time must be coordinated directly with the ready-mix supplier.
How this calculator works
Truck count is the total required yards divided by the planning truck capacity and rounded up. The arrival window uses the entered interval to estimate the time from first to last scheduled truck.
Legal payload, plant practice, road restrictions and partial-load charges can change actual capacity. Dispatch should be coordinated with placement and finishing capacity, not only with the arithmetic truck count.
Input checklist
- Total quantity: Enter the project-specific total quantity in yd³.
- Truck capacity: Enter the project-specific truck capacity in yd³.
- Desired truck interval: Enter the project-specific desired truck interval in min.
- First-load placement time: Enter the project-specific first-load placement time in min/load.
Worked example
For 32 yd³ with 10-yd³ trucks, the plan needs four loads: three full-load equivalents plus a partial final load of about 2 yd³.
Field checklist
- Confirm actual legal/producer truck capacity.
- Coordinate interval with placement rate.
- Plan access so arriving trucks do not block departing trucks.
- Provide a legal washout location.
References & further reading
- ACI SPEC-301-20 — Specifications for Concrete Construction — Reference specification used when incorporated into project specifications.
- NRMCA Concrete In Practice (CIP) — Industry education covering common concrete field problems and practices.