Truck and Truck Despatch Configuration
Trucks
A truck is a heavy vehicle used to transport material by road.
When trucks are used to move bulk material within internal mining and production locations, these movements are recorded in MineMarket as 'truck transactions' or 'truck type transactions'. When trucks are used to transport bulk material or discrete units to fulfil customer orders, this is referred to as a 'truck despatch'. Configuring a truck for use in MineMarket involves recording attributes such as its make and model, and defining its tonnage and/or volume.
Trucks can be grouped into truck groups.
Truck Types
A truck has an associated truck type that specifies a typical tonnage and volume.
Truck Factor Recalculation
A truck factor recalculation is based upon actual tonnages and volumes in truck transactions over a specified date range.
Truck Despatches
Despatching by truck involves transporting bulk material or discrete units along a truck route from a loading location to an unloading location and all associated activities (for example, sampling). Despatch orders can be associated with a truck despatch to provide the link between sales or purchase contracts and the despatched material. Service charges can be added to calculate the costs of freight or other services that can be invoiced.
Truck despatches can be created from a template. The template defines the route and may define default process flows and stockpiles for loading and unloading transactions.
Truck Despatch Templates
Truck despatch templates are used to create truck despatches for despatching material by truck. A truck despatch template must specify a truck route and whether the template can be changed to a different truck despatch template. Truck despatch templates may specify additional information to simplify the creation of similar truck despatches.
A truck despatch template may specify:
- A default loading process flow and stockpile, so that bulk material loading transactions can be created with one right-click menu option
- A default unloading process flow and stockpile, so that bulk material unloading transactions can be either created with one right-click menu option or automatically created
- Allowable stockpiles for loading and unloading, to limit which stockpiles can be used
- Costs and service charges from service or freight contracts
- Which tabs display on the Truck Despatch screen
Truck despatch templates are categorised into truck despatch templates groups. A truck despatch template must belong to a truck despatch template group.
Video
A Datamine consultant recorded this video about truck despatch templates in MineMarket.
