Alignment system and method for a concrete truck at a concrete plant or a cement tanker at a cement loading station

A concrete truck alignment method comprising:

• receiving location information from an electronic sensor that sees through dust or an environmental dust shield,
• determining a hopper offset from the location information where the hopper offset provides position information about a feed hopper on a concrete truck relative to a discharge chute on a loading station, and
• providing feedback based on the hopper offset using an electronic feedback unit.

A concrete truck alignment system comprising:

• a loading station with a discharge chute,
• a sensor that uses 20 to 100 GHz radar and provides location information, where the location information is used to determine a hopper offset, where the hopper offset is the distance between a feed hopper on a concrete truck and the discharge chute,
• an alignment feedback unit that provides feedback based on the hopper offset, where the alignment feedback unit shows a discharge icon representing the position of the discharge chute and a hopper icon representing the feed hopper, where the location of the hopper icon is relative to the discharge icon and the relative location of the hopper icon is based on the hopper offset, and the alignment feedback unit indicates when the hopper offset is within an alignment tolerance.