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Loadscan reveals that quantities received and delivered are way off
Project Details
CATEGORY: | Civil Construction |
LOCATION: | Brisbane, Australia |
PRODUCT: | LVS-3BMP Portable |
Think you know the amount of material you’re supplying or receiving? A Brisbane based civil construction company thought they did until they installed a Loadscan load volume scanner. The results were way off…
Background
Each truck was fitted with a RFID tag for automatic identification and was scanned empty for a database reference to calculate payload in m³.
Each load was scanned on exit and the total export material measured was 1667 loads at 34,559 m³.
This report illustrates by utilising the Loadscan system what commercial benefits exist and how the system can be used to monitor improvements in loading consistency and productivity.
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Truck types and details
Carting company billing rate per m³ exported: $6.50 per m³
Agreed truck rates:
- Truck and quad trailers: 22 m³ per load @ $6.50 per m³ = $143 per load
- Truck and tri trailers: 22 m³ per load @ $6.50 per m³ = $143 per load
- Truck and semi-trailers: 20 m³per load @ 6.50 per m³ = $130 per load
Initial results
Results below show the difference between what was measured to what was being paid for on the agreed per m³ truck rate.
The calculations below are based on one shift with 187 loads
- Total of 3515.6 m³ was measured in one shift @ $6.50 per m³ = $22,851.40 per day
- Total of 3990.0 m³ agreed truck rate of @ $6.50 per m³ = $25,935.00 per day
Difference of 474.4 m³ = $3,084.00 per day
Assuming the same loading practice and truck loads per day,
- $3084.00 x 6 days week = $18,504.00 loss per week
- 474.4 m³ x 6 day week = 2846.4 m³ of export equates to approx. 130 truckloads at a 22m³ per load factor not being carted.
- 8 weeks would equate to $148,032.00 (22,771.2 m³)
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Productivity
Results from the following week below show the increase in productivity and difference between what was measured to what was being paid for on the agreed per m³ truck rate.
The calculations below are based on one shift with 114 loads:
- Total of 2360.1 m³ was measured in one shift @ $6.50 per m³ = $15,340.65 per day
- Total of 2420 m³ agreed truck rate of @ $6.50 per m³ = $15,730.00 per day
- Difference of 60 m³ = $389.35 per day
- $389.35 x 6 days week = $2,336.10 loss per week
60 m³ x 6 day week = 360 m³ of export equates to approx. 16 truckloads at a 22m³ per load factor not being carted resulting in a big reduction in ‘lost cubic meters’.
Summary
Loadscan provides more accurate measurements of material movements when compared to traditional methods.
- Big opportunities to reduce export carting costs and increase your profit.
- Billing carting company for m³ measured not assumed.
- Big improvements in loading consistency and productivity.
- Load to target volume to manage truck specific mass load limits.
- Compliance with mass load limits will reduce the risk of fines for overloading.
- Chain of responsibility.