How much water does your truck hold?

[bj3976]

I have noticed in a few other posts that some guys only have 70 gallons of water. Is that the norm around the country? I'm from New England and our trucks carry 200 gal. and we have a couple rears that have 350 gal (2 tanks). I could not imagine only having 70 gal. Some of our customers pour so wet that they use about 170 gallons for 10 yards.

[BillyCement]

We have one water tank and it holds 150 gallons. The customer gets to use about 130 gallons. The rest is for me to wash down with.

[Matt]

200 gallon water tanks on most of our Advance mixers.

[Slick]

90 gal plus 25 gal plastisizer tank, if they want it wetter than that, they better order it wetter...

[gant]

150 gallon tank on mine.. and most of our customers order a 4" slump so I usually leave around a 5.5 or so.. but where we are working they cant add water.. too many rules.. and if we are filling in a hole the concrete cant fall more than 6 feet or it adds too much air to it..

[batchmaster]

the falling more than 6 feet has to do with segregation, the materials separating on the way down to the ground. That is just funny though, how many caisson's have you poured and the mud is falling 50 feet. and there are no problems there. that is more myth than fact i believe.

[vaupell]

0/0 gal/lit we dont have water on our trucks in general.
only pumps, and pumi (small punps) have onboard water.

our fall limit is around 1½meter not sure how that measures
out in feet. but asumeing around 5 feet, so dont think 6 feet
is far streched either.

[gant]

you dont have water onboard your truck?? I wish everyplace we washed down had their own hose lol, that would be great.. no more contractors trying to run us out of water.. I got one of my buddies a job at our company about a month ago and hes been in a truck for about 2 weeks and they ran him out of water for the first time today.. he climbed up top to put some plasticizer in his load and while he was up there, the pump operator took off his nozzle and filled the pumps water tank up and emptied my buddies.. he was pissed.. but he will learn

[BillyCement]

Gant.....it must be in the pump operator's handbook to try to take all the mixer's water. I had a pump guy ask me if he could have some water. I said okay. He took the hose and I wasn't paying attention. I thought he had just hung the nozzle on his pump. When I was empty (of concrete) I went to take my hose back and saw that he had wedged the nozzle into his water tank so it was slowly filling his tank. That was the last time that happened. Now I make them wait until we're done pumping and I'm washed down. Then he can have all the water he wants.

[slumpy]

im pretty sure mine tank only holds 120 gallon

[Mort]

125 for me.

The pump guy can have all the water he wants, if I'm clean or scraping and running. I get it for free anyway. But, as I said, as long as I'm clean.

[oldsmith]

I have two mixers. The 84 mack has a 250gal tank. The 97 paystar has 125gal tank and its a conveyor truck ill tell you I run out of water with it all the time!!

[gant]

my new truck is a 125 and it is on the side of the frame.. my old truck had a 150 and it was right behind the cab on the frame.. i've only had the truck 2 days and already ran out of water twice lol.. that extra 25 gals is nice

[vaupell]

gant said:

you dont have water onboard your truck?? I wish everyplace we washed down had their own hose lol.

Well since this post, i took it up with some coworkers and we
discussed about not haveing water on / in the truck.

Currently we have around 320 trucks where around 310 are
with conveyor, and none of them have water on them.

we have 2 Pumi (mixertrucks with pumps, not regular pump only)
they have a small water supply around 200liters, think thats 50gallon. or so.

Then we talked with the fleet management and there was no plans for getting water on trucks either. except pumping mixers.

Thats ewen though we can see alot of benefits from it, but then again
we also see alot of flaws when watching people with water.

a few benefits not haveing water
- When done unloading, you just drive off.
- No wash time between loads
- No costumers using my hose etc.

a few flaws not haveing water
- Longer wash time at the end of the day
- general more "dirty" trucks (dosent matter though)
- dirty slides (we only have 2 maybe 3 on each truck, due to the conveyor)

And the reason im not mentionen the concrete, so you can add water to the concrete.
is becourse its illegal to add anything at all after the truck have left the plant.
if its discovered you add anything = fired
The only one allowed to add something is the costumer,
and thats only after he have signed a weaver for quality etc.

So its kinda mixed feelings about the whole watery issue for us.
and of what i understand from the management its the same for
our co workers in the other contryes we operate.

[gant]

wow.. I couldnt imagine not having water on my truck.. I can only imagine the build up you guys must get

[vaupell]

hmmm buildup = none on 98% of the trucks.
but there are some that dont bother to clean the trucks proberly.

think i got a few photos around somewhere,, ill show a few of our trucks.

EDIT --

- Truck 240 - truck 240 getting loaded
- Truck 240 - truck 240 unloading in snow
- Truck 240 - truck 240 allmost fatal tipover
- Truck 240 - truck 240 allmost tipover 2
- Truck 241 - truck 241 conveyer broke off
- Truck 268 - truck 268 front
- Truck 268 - truck 268 from behind
- Truck 411 - truck 411
- Truck 357 - truck 357

- Esbjerg plant parking - Warning possible large picture file sizeEsbjerg plant truck parking

Yes they are old. and heading for the scrapyard most of them
life on these trucks are usually 10 years, but the last few years
been bad on replacement, slow deliveries etc.
so some of these are 10,11,12 years.
a few showed are newer. 1-3 years.

But it gives you the general idea of "no buildup"
and no water on the trucks either.

[gant]

as far as build up I mean inside the drum.. we have water and some of our guys get 2 and 3 yards built up in there in a matter of months

[concretejoe]

I carry 200 gallons. It belongs to me, but if the customer wants all 200 in the concrete he can have it. I personally am not all that concerned about keeping a clean truck. It's a concrete truck. It's going to get concrete on it. I hose my truck off until I see clean water. After that, I don't worry about it. I will say that I have not been in my drum for over 2 years now. The trick is to keep the inside of the drum wet until you can really flush it at the end of the day. The best thing to clean a drum is another load of concrete. At the end of the day I sit under the water hose at the wash out pit and run water into the drum then out of the drum until it comes out clean. I don't just fill the drum then discharge it. It is possible to keep a drum clean and not wash down through out the day. In the winter, I don't get on my catwalk, and the truck stays just as clean.

[vaupell]

gant said:

as far as build up I mean inside the drum.. we have water and some of our guys get 2 and 3 yards built up in there in a matter of months

hmm strange must be something to do with the additives
you use, compared to ours..

this entire week, ive been haveing a drive for about 2 hours
after my last pour, and still no buildup. and we dont use
any sorts of lubricants inside the drum (not allowed)
only on the outside of the truck.

[herslip98]

I drive a 2000 sterling and i can carry 150 gals. I have some nasty build up on the fins from unclean drivers it the truck this winter. But the good news is that i have had some good sized chunks falling out driving back empty. So far none on the pump truck gate they dont like that!!!!!!!LOL

[LEAD DOG]

OH...MAYBE 600 GALLONS OR SO ....IN THE CAB THAT IS !?! .
A BUDDY AND I LINED THE INSIDE OF ANOTHER BUDDIES MIXER WITH VISQUEEN . THEN WE RAN A 3" WATER HOSE AT THE TOP OF THE PASSENGER SIDE WINDOW AND FILLED HIS CAB WITH WATER . THE NEXT MORNING WHEN HE OPEN THAT DOOR HE TOOK A TRIP DOWN THE SWANNIE RIVER ;D. OH MY GOD ! IT WAS GREAT!