Despatches by Truck

• Despatches by Truck
• • Truck Despatch Creation
  • Truck Despatch Status
  • Loading and Unloading Trucks
  • Tonnage Correction
  • Activities Common to all Despatch Types

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.

See Truck and Truck Despatch Configuration for information about truck types and truck despatch templates.

Note: Use truck or truck type transactions when a truck moves material between stock locations at the mine site. See Bulk Material Transactions. Use truck despatches when a truck moves material between other locations; for example, between a mine site and the port.

Truck Despatch Creation

Use the Truck Despatch Explorer to create, view and edit truck despatches; and to create multiple truck despatches from a template.

Alternatively, you can create individual truck despatches from the (right-click) context menu of a truck despatch template in the Solution Explorer.

Truck Despatch Status

If the Truck Despatch status definition exists, when you create a truck despatch, the truck despatch is assigned the initial status. This status definition controls whether the truck despatch is editable and selectable. See Status Definitions.

Loading and Unloading Trucks

For bulk material, the transfer of material from a stockpile onto a truck is a truck despatch loading transaction and the transfer of material from the truck to a stockpile is a truck despatch unloading transaction. A process flow with the loading truck location as a destination is required for truck despatch bulk loading. A process flow with the unloading truck location as a source is required for truck despatch bulk unloading. See Create a Process Flow.

For discrete units (DUs), the transfer of packages or package groups from a warehouse onto a truck is a truck despatch loading movement and the transfer of packages or package groups from the truck to a warehouse is a truck despatch unloading movement. A movement flow with the loading truck location as a destination is required for truck despatch DU loading. A movement flow with the unloading truck location as a source is required for truck despatch DU unloading. See Create a Movement Flow.

When predefined routes are used for a truck despatch, the Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both setting for the route point locations is inherited from the truck route. See Create a Truck Route.

When dynamic routes are defined, whether a route point location is Loading Only, Unloading Only or Both is determined by whether material flows (that is, process flows or movement flows) exist from or to that location. If material flows only exist to that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Loading. If material flows only exist from that location, the activity at the route point is deemed to be Unloading. If material flows exist to and from that location, the activity can be either Loading or Unloading, with Loading used as the default.

For truck despatches created from a template, the template defines the route and may define default process flows and stockpiles for loading and unloading transactions. See Set up a Truck Despatch Template.

Tonnage Correction

A tonnage correction with a back calculation corrects the quantities of bulk loading or unloading transactions. A tonnage correction may be useful if measurements from a weighbridge are available and are more accurate than the measurements recorded by loading or unloading equipment.

Activities Common to all Despatch Types

For information about despatch states, load states, direct loading between despatch types, despatch quality, traceability, costs and service charges, see Despatches - Common Activities.