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Cat® Loading and Hauling Solutions

With a truck for every site or application — no matter the size class or drive system — and a broad lineup of loading tools, Caterpillar delivers a complete loading and hauling solution that delivers the lowest cost per ton for mines of any size, type or complexity.

Fully Integrated And Technology-Enabled

Cat loading and hauling systems are fully integrated and work together to deliver optimized performance. This integration includes the broad portfolio of Cat technologies. These advanced solutions connect your machines and allow them to communicate — giving you access to important operating and health data that can help you maximize the life and performance of your equipment. Caterpillar also provides tools, services and expertise to ensure you’re choosing the right system for your operation, taking advantage of all that technology has to offer, maximizing payload, optimizing performance, managing maintenance and repair — and putting more to your bottom line.

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6015B Shovels Hard At Work On The Pennsylvania Turnpike

    

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The right tool for the job

  

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Scale studies help mining companies maximize payload, increase production

  

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Optimized Loading and Hauling

Whether you choose a Cat electric rope shovel, hydraulic mining shovel or large wheel loader, or a mechanical drive or electric drive Cat truck, you’ll find they all have one thing in common: the machines are designed to work together to deliver optimized performance and the lowest cost per ton.

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Mining Truck Payload Management

To balance the desire for maximum payload with the importance of optimizing machine and component life, Caterpillar uses a 10/10/20 policy — recommending that no more than 10% of loads are over 110 % of target payload and never exceed 120%. The mean of the payloads should not exceed the target payload. To help you ensure you’re meeting production goals while adhering to this policy, it’s essential that you are accurately measuring payload.

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Ideal Match For Productivity

Pass Match — the number of passes necessary to load a truck — has a major impact on an operation’s productivity. It all starts with production goals — determining the amount of material you need to produce and then creating the loading and hauling system that will help you achieve your targets. The trucks and loaders that make up your system must match each other’s capabilities and be suited for the specific characteristics of your site and the demands of the operation. The comprehensive lineup of Cat trucks and loaders are ideally matched to help you achieve optimal hauling system performance.

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Loading Tool Selection

When it comes to selecting the right loading tools, several factors come into play. You must consider the size of your trucks, the characteristics of the site and the application, the variety of loading faces, secondary functions to be performed by the loader and the overall life of the operation. Caterpillar loading and hauling experts have put together this tool to help you make the right choice. 

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Six Loading Tips To Help Improve Truck Reliability

Loaders and haul trucks work together as a system, so it makes sense that good loading practices will positively affect truck reliability.

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Six Ways To Boost Hydraulic Shovel Productivity

Hydraulic shovels have a pretty simple job description: Load material onto trucks as quickly as possible. However, getting that job done cost effectively is not so simple.

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Seven Ways Hydraulic Shovel Operations Impact Your Bottom Line

In tough digging applications, hydraulic shovels can extract and load more material faster than any other type of machine. 

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Technology

Onboard and optional technologies are key contributors to optimized loading and hauling. They are integrated into Cat trucks and loading tools and provide information you can use to improve machine health, manage maintenance, increase the efficiency of your operation, boost productivity and lower your cost per ton.

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Onboard Technologies

Onboard and optional technologies are key contributors to optimized loading and hauling. They are integrated into Cat trucks and loading tools and provide information you can use to improve machine health, manage maintenance, increase the efficiency of your operation, boost productivity and lower your cost per ton.

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Optional Technologies

Cat MineStar™ Solutions, a comprehensive suite of technology offerings for mining, are an ideal match for Cat loading and hauling systems. They offer integrated, turnkey solutions that are easy to use and manage, and that enable the full optimization of the loading and hauling operation.

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Equipment Health

Throughout the cycle, machine health technologies are continually monitoring the health and status of machines being monitored. Data visualization and reporting tools help the maintenance team efficiently view, manage and use machine data to make informed maintenance decisions.

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MineStar Solutions help manage the loading and hauling operation

MineStar Solutions help manage the loading and hauling operation — assigning trucks to the loading tool, letting the loading tool operator know that the truck is coming, guiding the truck on the ideal path to take and helping the operator spot efficiently. It tells the loader operator in real time how much was loaded, how it compares to the target payload, and even what material type is in each bucket load. The technology then tells the truck where to dump the material. Technology solutions also help create a safer loading and hauling operation. They help operators identify nearby hazards, identify operator fatigue and distraction, and can even predict potential collisions.

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Cat Loading and Hauling Lineup

Off-Highway Trucks

Pass-matched with our wheel loaders and excavators, you can count on our haul trucks for maximum productivity at a low cost per ton.

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Mining Trucks

With offerings in both electric and mechanical drive and payloads ranging from 139 to 372 tonnes (153 to 410 tons), Caterpillar can offer a truck for every type of mining application.

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mining trucks

Large Wheel Loaders

Large wheel loaders have grown in size over time to match increasing off-highway and mining truck payload capacities. 

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Hydraulic Mining Shovels

Hydraulic shovels combine the benefits of high digging forces with large capacity buckets.

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Electric Rope Shovels

Electric rope shovels offer the lowest cost-per-ton loading solution for long-life mines. 

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Job Site Solutions Fleet Management Services

Fleet management solutions that make costs manageable, increase uptime and improve productivity. 

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Caterpillar Safety Services

Caterpillar Safety Services will guide you along your safety journey by providing industry best practices, continuous improvement processes and the latest technologies to see, mitigate and manage risks.

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Lifecycle Support

Optimized loading and hauling also depends on the resources you have in place – like the expertise provided by Cat dealers and Caterpillar personnel. 
 

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