Can the 1010 load two tanker trucks simultaneously?
The 1010 is designed to load a truck by authorising the driver and/or truck and providing prompts to guide the operator through the loading sequence. In this way, the 1010 takes control over the entire transaction associated with loading a truck. Trying to load more than two trucks, say on an island gantry with a truck on either side, is not possible with a multi-arm 1010. You cannot have one arm of a 1010A2 devoted to the truck on the left side and the second arm devoted to the truck on the right side of a gantry. The reason behind this lies in the messaging and operator interface. It is extremely difficult to display the appropriate messages to two different drivers at the same time without have a very confusing operating sequence. Even if you do succeed in designing a message sequence, what happens when error or alarm messages need to be displayed? The sequence becomes so confusing that it is far easier to install two 1010’s, with one on each side of the gantry. Also, under most wei
