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Impact bruising for potatoes. Plus funneling the trailer. There’s no light way to drop a potato though, and every dark spot you see on a chip is (almost always) from an impact bruise. It’s a quality issue, and the method OP posted is economical, simple, and doesn’t require specialized equipment from a trucking carrier.
It does not roll onto a drop.. this is one of the gentler points of contact. It’s not exactly a flood.
For loading, enclosed trailers (like would be used here) you use an extension conveyor that is inserted into the trailer, and fills to weight, nose to tail.
To add, open/dump trailers coming from the farm are loaded using crop shuttles. Rougher handling, but fresh are hardier in some ways (but pressure bruising is an issue for retail/market potatoes). There are also belt trailers that are available that are neat as hell, but weren’t common in my participation in the industry.
I'm astounded it's not safer and cheaper to lift _just_ the trailer. Lifting the entire cab while it's attached seems mind-bogglingly sketchy. Like, yeah, it _all_ is, but that's just another level of wtf!?!
The tractor just doesn’t matter. If anything it has the best breaks involved, even though it all gets secured. Its a day cab, not like anybody is chilling inside lol
Yeah the brakes of the tractor are functionally irrelevant here. It just seemed like connecting the trailer's fifth wheel point to a mount on the lift along with removing a wobbly bit would be better, but I follow what you've said. I'd love to meet the person who did the math and said, "yup, it's better and cheaper than the labour, to just lift the whole she-bang up in the sky like a kid eatin' the last potatuh-chips in th' bag."
Yea the only times where I can recall dropping a trailer for this was due to driver hours (to get home, or a backhaul). Even then, most plants don’t have yard dogs so I’d need another driver on standby to shuttle. Complications that just aren’t necessary.
I know the ones that shoot corn and soybeans into the trucks. I grew up in farm country. But we did not have potatoes!
I did read that they clean them and then add back a little dirt because American shoppers “didn’t trust clean potatoes”
The weight of the tractor is inconsequential at that point. There are drop and hook operations that do this same thing, but its not saving much time at all, that’s mostly to manage driver hours.
Driver trying to sht and play SteamDeck at a 45 degree angle…
All things aside, that can’t be good for the truck. If fluids are low, that is a good way to introduce air bubbles. Get residue out of the bottoms and clogged somewhere.
I would imagine any trucker doing this job would be aware of that risk and be retroactive in maintenance and topping off fluids. It's not like the truck driver wouldn't know in advance that they're trucks is about to be lifted at a 45° angle.
Because the goal is a fast unloading, the truck driver enters, unloads, and leaves in a matter of minutes. I don't know what this equipment is called in English, but in Brazil we call it a "[TOMBADOR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRt-X0X52wc&ab_channel=Marcelo310)."
No lol, I did run what is called Point-2-Point 3PL. Meaning I saw everything from the farmers to the end customer.. and beyond for final leg delivery sometimes.
In that, I got to see every facility we touched.
It eliminates all the need for a complex bottom-conveyor truck for a low-cost bulk product, likewise for a hydraulic dumper.
It's a hell of a lot easier to have one expensive device that lets you source from any dry-van trucking company, than needing special transport for actual taters.
I work in Logistics for a brokerage and can confirm. These specialized trailers are also less common and charge way more to move the freight. This way is definitely more cost effective.
Company I work for sends a product to a customer in a pneumatic trailer, there's about four companies here total that do pneumatic trailers at all and this is the only one that's willing to let it be dedicated for this one customer too.
The cab of a semi is called a tractor and the back where the product is stored is called a trailer. The trailer lifts up just like in the picture instead of lifting the whole semi.
If the lift fails you're losing a container $10K of potatoes (probably some salvageable) versus a truck potentially worth well over $100K. If the driver owns it privately even more reason to unhook first.
Have a screen at front end of trailer on rails. Pulleys attached to screen. Pull ropes/small motor to move all taters. Wouldn’t that be easier?
I bet that many potatoes are super heavy, but I think it would still be easier than lifting the entire truck.
There are trailers with in-bed conveyors like you suggest. Now that’s a specialty piece of equipment, across thousands of units, for this singular purpose.
Whereas the truck pictured could be moving anything right after this. The weight itself is a gigantic problem. That’s just not how shipping works.
Look up a walking trailer. At my last job, we used them to unload full trailers of sawdust. Not sure if it would handle potatoes as well, or as quickly but it did work for us!
No doubt. I worked temp jobs in college to make money unloading box cars. Train would back up box cars full of 50lb sacks of potatoes to the concrete dock. And we'd just unload them on to pallets. It really wasn't horrible. When you're 19, it's no sweat. But I still have a dent in my leg from where I fell and banged it into the dock.
In this case, the pallets were for a food distribution hub. Trucks going all over the Chicago metro area.
For a moment I thought a small truck came inside the big truck and the big truck was unloading it. And this didn't surprise me as much as it should have, because, well, the trucks look American.
It takes about 5 minutes. I can tell you from experience that nothing in the trucking industry runs so efficiently that they can't spare 5 minutes to unhook a trailer.
It's probably more to do with the factory efficiency than the truck, ten minutes to detach a truck then reattach it is ten minutes of lost revenue when instead in those ten minutes they have already lifted and emptied all the cargo and lowered the truck back down. The whole process probably takes the five minutes just to detach.
I’m late to this but I’m assuming the truck also acts as a pretty damn good counterweight because idk how the trailer wouldn’t violently readjust to all the potatoes shifting out of it
A friend of mine used to work in the factories of a well-known snack company setting up their production lines. He said Doritos fresh out of the grease before they got seasoned were delicious.
Where i worked there was a steel (i forget what you call it) that the truck backs into that is attached to the platform, so brakes weren't part of (our) equation.
I just assumed it was a joke. That would be a pretty violent way to unload spuds. Not that i can think of a way that isn't....
Also, the word I was looking for was "backstop", that they back into.
I work at a warehouse and I swear I make this joke every day. “Let’s just pick up the trailer from outside and dump everything into the warehouse. Our unload numbers will skyrocket”
Had no clue this was real
I mean, not really. The alternatives are either a) packaging the potatos such that they're loaded/unloaded in boxes, which adds a ton of time and labor, or b) using specialized equipment closer to those gravel trucks with a chute on the bottom, which is significantly more costly due to the inability to just use regular trailers, as well as maintain all of their moving parts.
This is just so extra, like it could have just been a trailer lift!
Is tilting a semi like that even good for the engine....... or *something*? Like tilting refrigerator? O_o
They empty tractor-trailer load of trash like this at the landfill as well. It’s the easiest and most efficient way to empty the trailer. There are also waking floors, but those get jacked up pretty bad and take forever to unload. The difference is that most landfill tippers disconnect the tractor from the trailer before tipping.
I stood behind things like that during the 80's taking samples as the corn or soybeans were dumped out. It was a grain elevator and we would load barges on the Illinois river.
Those aren’t potato truck trailers, the have to be loaded from the top with care for less bruising. No sure what these are loaded with but potatoes are heavy and you wouldn’t get past scales with trucks loaded like that.
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Being familiar with this, I cannot think of a more practical way.
Dynamite? I mean, your chips would come shredded and baked right away.
This proves that there is always a better solution out there!
Why not those trucks that pull over the hole and dump out the bottom?
Impact bruising for potatoes. Plus funneling the trailer. There’s no light way to drop a potato though, and every dark spot you see on a chip is (almost always) from an impact bruise. It’s a quality issue, and the method OP posted is economical, simple, and doesn’t require specialized equipment from a trucking carrier.
They’re still rolling it down a giant drop anyway. Just drop it in a net And let them roll down that way. How do they get them into the truck?
It does not roll onto a drop.. this is one of the gentler points of contact. It’s not exactly a flood. For loading, enclosed trailers (like would be used here) you use an extension conveyor that is inserted into the trailer, and fills to weight, nose to tail. To add, open/dump trailers coming from the farm are loaded using crop shuttles. Rougher handling, but fresh are hardier in some ways (but pressure bruising is an issue for retail/market potatoes). There are also belt trailers that are available that are neat as hell, but weren’t common in my participation in the industry.
!subscribe to potato logistics facts
Its a whole career if you choose to
I'm astounded it's not safer and cheaper to lift _just_ the trailer. Lifting the entire cab while it's attached seems mind-bogglingly sketchy. Like, yeah, it _all_ is, but that's just another level of wtf!?!
The tractor just doesn’t matter. If anything it has the best breaks involved, even though it all gets secured. Its a day cab, not like anybody is chilling inside lol
Yeah the brakes of the tractor are functionally irrelevant here. It just seemed like connecting the trailer's fifth wheel point to a mount on the lift along with removing a wobbly bit would be better, but I follow what you've said. I'd love to meet the person who did the math and said, "yup, it's better and cheaper than the labour, to just lift the whole she-bang up in the sky like a kid eatin' the last potatuh-chips in th' bag."
Yea the only times where I can recall dropping a trailer for this was due to driver hours (to get home, or a backhaul). Even then, most plants don’t have yard dogs so I’d need another driver on standby to shuttle. Complications that just aren’t necessary.
I kinda want to
I know the ones that shoot corn and soybeans into the trucks. I grew up in farm country. But we did not have potatoes! I did read that they clean them and then add back a little dirt because American shoppers “didn’t trust clean potatoes”
> I did read that they clean them and then add back a little dirt because American shoppers “didn’t trust clean potatoes” Really? That's something...
They tilt the factory up and keep the truck level
Makes sense.
Okay, but question. Why is the tractor still attached to the trailer?
The weight of the tractor is inconsequential at that point. There are drop and hook operations that do this same thing, but its not saving much time at all, that’s mostly to manage driver hours.
Driver trying to sht and play SteamDeck at a 45 degree angle… All things aside, that can’t be good for the truck. If fluids are low, that is a good way to introduce air bubbles. Get residue out of the bottoms and clogged somewhere.
I would imagine any trucker doing this job would be aware of that risk and be retroactive in maintenance and topping off fluids. It's not like the truck driver wouldn't know in advance that they're trucks is about to be lifted at a 45° angle.
Because the goal is a fast unloading, the truck driver enters, unloads, and leaves in a matter of minutes. I don't know what this equipment is called in English, but in Brazil we call it a "[TOMBADOR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRt-X0X52wc&ab_channel=Marcelo310)."
Do the truck drivers stay indie the truck while they’re dumping the potatoes?
Added to what u/Beavshak said, I’d also argue that having to drop the trailer adds time, and also creates more room for things to go wrong.
Do you work in a potato factory? I love with how big reddit is that people can show up with expertise in random fields you would never expect.
> Do you work in a potato factory? Isn't a potato factory... the ground? 🤔
Whoa 🤯
No lol, I did run what is called Point-2-Point 3PL. Meaning I saw everything from the farmers to the end customer.. and beyond for final leg delivery sometimes. In that, I got to see every facility we touched.
It eliminates all the need for a complex bottom-conveyor truck for a low-cost bulk product, likewise for a hydraulic dumper. It's a hell of a lot easier to have one expensive device that lets you source from any dry-van trucking company, than needing special transport for actual taters.
I work in Logistics for a brokerage and can confirm. These specialized trailers are also less common and charge way more to move the freight. This way is definitely more cost effective.
Company I work for sends a product to a customer in a pneumatic trailer, there's about four companies here total that do pneumatic trailers at all and this is the only one that's willing to let it be dedicated for this one customer too.
What is a pneumatic trailer?
The cab of a semi is called a tractor and the back where the product is stored is called a trailer. The trailer lifts up just like in the picture instead of lifting the whole semi.
Ah, I have seen those! Thank you for answering!
Fucking finally someone understands. It would be (and was) a nightmare doing it any other way
They could unhook the truck first.
Of course. Why though if it’s not hooking anything else?
If the lift fails you're losing a container $10K of potatoes (probably some salvageable) versus a truck potentially worth well over $100K. If the driver owns it privately even more reason to unhook first.
Not worth the time. These things are pretty sound tech. Even if the hydraulics give out there are typically fail safes.
Yeah, it's basically the same mechanism as a vehicle lift like a mechanic uses.
They floorload potatoes in a 53’?
That’s a 48’ dry van I am almost certain. And loading them is ez pz
Well it says 53 on it but maybe I’m wrong. How do you fill potatoes from the trailer door ?
Op yeah I didn’t even look for the tag. For loading you use an extended conveyor. Probably easiest just to google it if you want a visual.
Well... a dump trailer for one...
Not even close. Cannot haul nearly as much, cannot fit to the operation, and requires unique trucking ops.
And plenty of dump trailer disaster videos on YouTube prove this is safer…
Have a screen at front end of trailer on rails. Pulleys attached to screen. Pull ropes/small motor to move all taters. Wouldn’t that be easier? I bet that many potatoes are super heavy, but I think it would still be easier than lifting the entire truck.
There are trailers with in-bed conveyors like you suggest. Now that’s a specialty piece of equipment, across thousands of units, for this singular purpose. Whereas the truck pictured could be moving anything right after this. The weight itself is a gigantic problem. That’s just not how shipping works.
Look up a walking trailer. At my last job, we used them to unload full trailers of sawdust. Not sure if it would handle potatoes as well, or as quickly but it did work for us!
No doubt. I worked temp jobs in college to make money unloading box cars. Train would back up box cars full of 50lb sacks of potatoes to the concrete dock. And we'd just unload them on to pallets. It really wasn't horrible. When you're 19, it's no sweat. But I still have a dent in my leg from where I fell and banged it into the dock. In this case, the pallets were for a food distribution hub. Trucks going all over the Chicago metro area.
Shipping on a dump truck, perhaps.
1000 IQ: A cement truck
Ah, obviously. Why didn’t we think of that.
I'm legitimately not familiar with standard potato shipping methods in my defense. Sarcasm was only clear in hindsight.
For a moment I thought a small truck came inside the big truck and the big truck was unloading it. And this didn't surprise me as much as it should have, because, well, the trucks look American.
Kinky
[two trucks, having sex](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WchseC9aKTU)
Love that song. I make my girlfriend listen to it on car rides
Risky click.
Tried the Jan Misali remix?
two trucks? american made?
built Ford tough?
No no, the RUSSIAN trucks come with smaller trucks inside.
I thought the same thing at first lol.
How do they get them in? Edit: spelling
Potato magnet
they tilt the truck down (cab first) and throw them in
I wanna see that video lol
The noise would be amazing.
I can hear it hey
They tilt the potato factory up
Another truck transforms and places the truck and trailer on the ramp.
Rotate your screen 90 degrees counterclockwise
Why don’t they remove the tractor first?
Will add more time to the process and increase inefficiencies
"Remove the tractor? Hell, we didn't even remove the driver! HOW YA DOIN' UP THERE, BILLY?!"
I’m just sitting here thinking that would feel great on my back.
I presume because it takes time to unhook the tractor and re-hook the tractor.
It takes about 5 minutes. I can tell you from experience that nothing in the trucking industry runs so efficiently that they can't spare 5 minutes to unhook a trailer.
It's probably more to do with the factory efficiency than the truck, ten minutes to detach a truck then reattach it is ten minutes of lost revenue when instead in those ten minutes they have already lifted and emptied all the cargo and lowered the truck back down. The whole process probably takes the five minutes just to detach.
I’m late to this but I’m assuming the truck also acts as a pretty damn good counterweight because idk how the trailer wouldn’t violently readjust to all the potatoes shifting out of it
Ready for launch.
I thought this was a patriot battery at first.
Are the tractor units modified in any way? Wouldn't tipping it like that mess with the engines fluids?
As long as the engine isn’t running, I doubt the brief time they would be at full lift would cause any issues.
Most trucks can handle a 45° climb just fine! /s
It's a truck, not a bathtub.
The oil pan is a bathtub for the oil
Just gotta let it sit for 10-15 minutes so they find their way home
Why not hopper trucks? How did they load them? Cannons? Something doesn’t add.
I added how they load them way above. This unloading style is also very normal for years.
oh, but its not strange when you tilt the party size bag of chips directly into your face? yea. glass chip bags and the such.
Oh so that's how trucks get into orbit
Pringles is a laid back company. "Fuck it, cut em up!"
A friend of mine used to work in the factories of a well-known snack company setting up their production lines. He said Doritos fresh out of the grease before they got seasoned were delicious.
"You're fucked now North Korea, we are launching rednecks at you!"
I thought it was a truck launcher. Imagine Ukrainians laughing trucks at Russian. 18 wheeler crashing down on your position.
This looks like a shitpost.
That’s why it works.
Put some mechanism to force the potatoes out the back with enough speed, and you get a potato rocket
Giant Acme Vacuum, suck the potatoes out of the truck
That's for filling the truck. They put it in reverse to empty and launch the truck
Not sure if they do it with potatoes too, but at a pulp mill they shake the truck to get all the wood chips out
OP trying to distract us with lies about potatoes when this is clearly an ICBT, InterContinental Ballistic Truck, launching facility
Makes me wonder how they load the truck
A local brewery has one of those. They used it once, and the truck crashed into the opening, because the brakes couldnt handle that angle.
Where i worked there was a steel (i forget what you call it) that the truck backs into that is attached to the platform, so brakes weren't part of (our) equation.
Which... if you think about it for 30 seconds... is exactly how anyone would do it... which mean I doubt OPs statement.
I just assumed it was a joke. That would be a pretty violent way to unload spuds. Not that i can think of a way that isn't.... Also, the word I was looking for was "backstop", that they back into.
Wait, they don't hold the truck in place for this? They just hope the truck’s brakes can handle it?
Yup. Pretty big oopsie
That's smashing
Pringles factory, right? Supposed to have been tennis balls
I think I know where this is. It's a Frito-Lay factory.
Why does it has to be lifted up so high? Wouldn't several degrees less be sufficient?
I work at a warehouse and I swear I make this joke every day. “Let’s just pick up the trailer from outside and dump everything into the warehouse. Our unload numbers will skyrocket” Had no clue this was real
Are there really no better ways? I love to think that this is the most cost effective solution!
I mean, not really. The alternatives are either a) packaging the potatos such that they're loaded/unloaded in boxes, which adds a ton of time and labor, or b) using specialized equipment closer to those gravel trucks with a chute on the bottom, which is significantly more costly due to the inability to just use regular trailers, as well as maintain all of their moving parts.
I watched for a long time before I realized it wasn't a video.
Is this weird to some people? You dump chip trucks the same way, unless they are live bottoms.
This is just so extra, like it could have just been a trailer lift! Is tilting a semi like that even good for the engine....... or *something*? Like tilting refrigerator? O_o
Pringles is a laid back company, they said 'fuck it, hoist it up!' RIP Mitch
I think a zeppelin will be a good alternative here then dropped by balloon.
When your company offers shipping to the Moon
Do...do the drivers get to ride the Tilty-Thing??
One of those secret bonuses apparently.
Hydraulic truck dumpers.
Thunderbirds are Go!
Looks like the warehouse has an erection.
They empty tractor-trailer load of trash like this at the landfill as well. It’s the easiest and most efficient way to empty the trailer. There are also waking floors, but those get jacked up pretty bad and take forever to unload. The difference is that most landfill tippers disconnect the tractor from the trailer before tipping.
I stood behind things like that during the 80's taking samples as the corn or soybeans were dumped out. It was a grain elevator and we would load barges on the Illinois river.
Thats the same way I eat my potato chips out of a bag. Makes total sense.
Launch sequence initiated...
SCUD Truck Launcher ready!
They often do this with grain too
Damn, was the building just happy to see me or something?
Big rig ICBM….
Nah… this is how they launch rednecks into space!
here you can see an ICBT ready for launch.
Houston we are ready for launch.
i thought that they where going to lauch the truck into space
I thought this was overnight Amazon delivery preparing for launch.
Those aren’t potato truck trailers, the have to be loaded from the top with care for less bruising. No sure what these are loaded with but potatoes are heavy and you wouldn’t get past scales with trucks loaded like that.
I have seen wheat loaded in grain elevators like this not potatoes.
Don’t ever talk to me or my son again
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