Excerpts from the report: One of the main functions of the country grain elevator is to receive grain from the farm at harvesttime. Trucks loaded with grain come from the fields to the elevator, the trucks are weighed, the grain is sampled and then dumped from the truck, and the empty trucks are weighed and returned to the fields for more grain. Considered on a national basis--and even on a local basis--the receiving or unloading of grain trucks is a big and expensive operation. The objectives of this research, therefore, are to provide grain storage operators and design engineers with a scientific basis for planning and designing the capacity of truck unloading systems for grain elevators that minimize operating, ownership, and waiting costs. The purpose is to help the elevator manager select the best capacity of receiving facilities for different ranges of truck receipts.
