is a coal shoot a must have

I guess you could shoot the coal of it somehow with some kind of device.

 

Hi uh, well, I hauled a lot in dump trucks, many of which didn't have the little door in the tailgate. Many times, the material isn't against the tailgate anyway, especially on a tri or quad axle, so raising the box to dump some off causes the load to shift to the back, putting you way over on the rear axles. What I did, was raise the box so the gate would open a little, BEFORE the load slid, and kicked it off. Getting legal, weight wise, is probably the biggest hassle in dump trucking. Good luck.

 

What semi said and, a high percentage of gravel pits these days have loaders with scales on them. They usually can dial a load in by 1/2 ton. We use our coal chutes on our trucks at work but only to feed our belt truck.

 

Dump trucks run legal?


Loader scales usually do pretty well at the pits, on job sites though it's the non-stop of playing Kentucky windage with the operators (the ones that care).