Animal feed movement: Less loading time, fewer night drivers. Photo: Emmy Koeleman
Animal feed has to go from A to B, so that means transportation time. Our clients are evaluating their trucking time and seeing that they spend 20 minutes or more in the loadout bay for each load. Wouldn’t you rather have them on the road to the farm or actually unloading the feed? We have recently seen loadout systems constructed only 7 years ago that seemed like a decent system. A shuttle conveyor that travelled back and forth to load each compartment on the truck and the truck never moves.
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