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m4rkuskktoday at 6:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

This may work on a small scale, not in most commercial use cases. A typical deck pour (400cy) will pour at 70-80cy/hr. you got 9-10cy/truck. Meaning you have 7 to 8 minutes to back in the truck, empty it into the hopper and leave. You barely have time to add water to the mix. Most high-volume concrete plants are "dry-batch", which means all the ingredients get dumped into the drum and the concrete will get mixed while driving to the project site. Also, changing mixes on the fly will not "fly". No one is going to authorize the adjustment, because what happens when the mix doesn't meet specs... It will need to get chipped out.


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ortusduxtoday at 7:20 PM

The target audience of these trucks is sub-10cy jobs. It allows companies to cater to smaller customers at a premium.

bluGilltoday at 8:43 PM

In the large road projects I've seen they bring a concrete plant to the job. Buildings still get trucks coming in.

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