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The load call

A container is certified once (measured, photographed, given a cert number) to fix its capacity in cubic yards. Nobody re-measures a truck per trip. At the tower, the monitor looks into the bed and enters what percentage of that capacity is filled: the load call, a whole number from 0 to 100.

billable CY = certified capacity × load call %

For example, certification 730415 is a 65 CY dump trailer. Called at 80%, the load is 65 × 0.80 = 52.0 CY.

Calls that are flagged

Section titled “Calls that are flagged”

Extreme calls are flagged, never refused:

CallWhat happens
0%Always flagged, whatever the limits, and bills nothing (0 CY)
At or under the project’s low limit (5% unless changed)Flagged, still bills
At or over the project’s high limit (95% unless changed)Flagged, still bills

The two limits are a project setting the firm changes or turns off, audited; they start from the release’s built-in defaults (LOAD_CALL_LOW_LIMIT, LOAD_CALL_HIGH_LIMIT). A reviewer who checks the tower’s photographs and finds a heaped load really was 96% accepts the flag with a reason; nothing about the money changes.

One quantity, never both

Section titled “One quantity, never both”

When the pay item the firm’s rules pay a load at is measured by weight (its unit of measure is tons), the tower enters the scale weight instead of a load call, transcribed by hand from the scale receipt. The back office works out ahead, from its rules, what each site’s phones ask for, so the monitor never has to know.

  • A scale receipt comes only from a final disposal site that weighs, and it matters only where the contract pays by weight. It is hand-transcribed, never inferred.
  • A weight and a load call are never compared: there is no “weight against load call” check.
  • A disposal that arrives with both is flagged, and the paying pay item decides which bills.
  • One scale weight shared by a tandem’s two containers is split by their certified capacities, and both tickets are flagged.

Where the call is taken

Section titled “Where the call is taken”
  • A load: at the tower, on the disposal.
  • A haul-out: at the loading end, the TDSR, on the haul-out collection. The haul-out disposal only confirms the truck dumped and left empty.
  • A split haul-out loaded from several piles: each pile’s collection gives the call so far; what each pile added is the difference, so a pile’s call that isn’t higher than the one before it is flagged.

Loads with no call

Section titled “Loads with no call”

Some loads take their quantity from the tickets they carry, a setting on the pay item: a load of stumps, or of white goods, is paid from the unit rate tickets it carries, not from a call. A count at the tower that differs from the tickets the collection lists is flagged.

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