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From: the Chief3/11/2016 5:39:54 PM
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Lets discuss this issue the Knats have with transporting marble for Miller. The PEA states we will do 150,000 tons. So lets use some examples of how this could be done.

8 trucks 25 tons each. They drive into the compound on day 1 at 8AM. The drivers have their cars and go home for that day and night.
During the day before day 1, or Day ZERO, the two cutter machines cut enough marble to load all 8 trucks. That day (day 1) they loaders load all 8 trucks with 25 tons of marble each by end of day.
The next morning the drivers come back to work. They drive to montreal 100miles and unload their trucks. Then drive back to miller. Leaving the trucks overnight and drive the cars home. Meanwhile cutters have been cutting all day and start loading the trucks again, In the morning they arrive for work to find their trucks ready to go to montreal again.

8 trucks x 25 tons is 200 tons of marble a day.

Every work week we deliver 1000 tons to Montreal using Just 8 trucks and the drivers are doing 200 miles a day and getting home every evening. The cutters are operating during the day so not disturbing people and the loaders are loading as the cutter frees the marble. The trucks could depart at 7AM and make the round trip to Montreal in a day with ease. They would be back to miller by 5PM, allowing the loader to load 3 - 1mx1mx3m blocks on each truck. So the loader has to load 3 blocks on every truck 2 loaders only have to load 12 blocks each.

Assuming 20 minutes per block, 3 blocks an hour it would take 4 hours for a loader to load his portion of the trucks. The trucks would all not arrive at the sametime because each would require unloading in Montreal, which would be with far bigger cranes and a "system in place". So Truck 1 would be back at Miller by noonish
Allowing the first loader to load truck 1 from the material already cut by the cutters who started at 7AM.

So the Knats would like you to believe that traffic jams and delays make this not possible,

So find the flaw and we can debate it.

5 day week 1000 tons, 48 weeks, giving time off for 2 weeks holidays and weekends being off. Fridays Cutting goes onto the Monday Truck, Friday Loaders load the truck for Monday departure.
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