What are the typical times to?

I have driving trucks as moving scenery in a railroad game. They are given commands over a schedule. The times for waits at stopping points can be specified.

How long (in minutes) does, typically speaking:

1. a milk truck stop take at a dairy farm to fill the truck?
2. a hay truck at a farm take to load or unload?
3. a truck take at a fuel pump at a diesel filling station?
4. a cattle truck take to unload at a feed lot?
5. a dry van take at at Harley-Davidson dealership to unload goods in cardboard boxes other than motorcycles?
6. a truck take to couple or uncouple a trailer?
7. a logging truck take at loading or unloading point?

One has to consider times it takes to secure loads, put away special equipment, etc. from the time the truck stops until it rolls again. However, on a model railroad or in a game, trucks sitting for too long might bore the audience.

 

Here are how the schedules are timed in my model truck scenario:

1. some trucks stop at the diesel pumps of Don's Diesel Stop filling station for 5 minutes and others for 10
2. milk trucks stop at the Hood Dairy Farm's milk storage tanks for one hour
3. logging trucks stop at the logging camp for 1/2 hour to load and at the sawmill for 10 minutes to unload: putting on those pretended log chains on must take some time
4. the hay truck stops at the Boone Family Farm for one hour flat
5. drop and hook: a truck backs up to the American Freight Co. dock, uncouples and waits for 5 minutes before the tractor pulls away leaving the trailer there, when the same Kenworth classic tractor backs up to another trailer at the same dock, it waits 5 minutes before pulling away with the new trailer: I'm considering the real-world time it takes to inspect the coupling, hook up the pigtail and glad hands, do a brake and lights check and operate the landing gear (none of these things are shown in the game or animated but they are implied)

The logs just magically appear on the trailer when the Load command is executed and magically vanish into thin air suddenly when the Unload command is executed. Trucks just stop at the fuel islands and wait for a specified amount of time and there is no animation of the driver getting out and putting the nozzle in the tank.

 

There are only three logging trucks on my layout. Yes, they will line up one behind the other to load or unload. Waiting for hours is not acceptable in model railroading or hobby trucking for entertainment. There is a static-model big yellow CAT tractor that, in pretended fashion, unloads the logs the mill and another such tractor that "loads" the logs at the camp. These static tractors (non-moving vehicle models) have diesel smoke emanating from their stacks and diesel engine sounds. At the lumber yard of Thompson's Sawmill, I have an animated guy on a yellow Hyster forklift moving big wooden crates around.

Virtual/fantasy model railroading is my hobby, the trucking industry (with operating trucks) is a big attraction on my layout and my railroading is all computer imagery. Both the trains and trucks have to be programmed with schedules with a battery of specific commands to do what and do it when. It's AI or autonomous operation.

 

My model logging trucks aren't pole trucks but flatbeds with bolsters so the trailers don't get loaded. They make short trips. The logging camp is about 5 scale miles away from the sawmill.