Surface Haulage

First published in 1989. This volume includes papers of an International Symposium on "Off-Highway Haulage in Surface Mines" held in Edmonton, Canada, May 1989. They take up truck dispatch, fleet management, equipment, operations and safety, and haulroads.

Acquaints the reader with a specific aspect of mining. Discusses surface coal & surface metal & nonmetal haulage safety. Accidents involving haulage trucks & other mobile surface equip. constitute a major safety problem in the mining industry. Surface accidents involving haulage trucks, front-end loaders, pickups, scrappers, & other mobile haulage equip. account for many mining accidents & fatalities. Illustrates the principles of haul road design & maint., braking system inspection & maint., & driver procedures relating to truck runaways. Looks at potential hazards & preventive measures assoc. with surface haulage, & how these hazards can be minimized to equipment operators.

This report provides policy makers with a framework to understand reliability issues in transport services, to incorporate reliability into project assessment and to design reliability management policies. It also explores a range of reliability performance measures.