What Does an Optimized Hauling Operation Look Like

It’s an operation where trucks work consistently, efficiently and productively — and when equipped with autonomous technology, they operate near-continuously.

Trucks are correctly configured and calibrated for the application, deliver top performance and provide high availability.

Availability is utilized through automatic assignment, with trucks arriving at the loader precisely at the right time.

Trucks travel on well-designed and maintained haul roads and they carry full payloads.

The load is correctly placed, measured, tracked and delivered to the right location.

Sites have near-real-time access to operational information.

Supervisors have the ability to reschedule and reassign when requirements change — while autonomous trucks are reassigned without any human intervention at all.

In an optimized hauling operation, people on site work safely whenever they are in, on or around equipment. Or they can be removed from harm’s way through autonomous operation.

Operations are more sustainable thanks to highly efficient operations, which result in less idle time, less bunching at the loader, less unnecessary empty travel and less wasted fuel — resulting in decreased exhaust emissions and greenhouse gases per ton.