Apparatus and method responsive to the on-board measuring of haulage parameters of a vehicle

A system for acquisitioning and accumulating data indicative of haul cycles executed by a haulage vehicle moving between load and dump sites, where each haul cycle is a complete round trip from a load site to a dump site and back to a load site or from a dump site to a load site and back to a dump site, the system comprising:

• first means mounted to the vehicle for providing a first set of data whose value is indicative of a loading or unloading of material into or from a body of the vehicle during each of the haul cycles;
• second means for providing a second set of data whose value uniquely identifies the vehicle;
• an electronic processor on-board the vehicle for acquiring the first and second sets of data, detecting a change in the value of either the first or second sets of data and providing a third set of data in response to the change, where each third set of data defines a haulage event;
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• a storage medium for accumulating the third set of data from the electronic processor so as to create a record of the haulage events.

A system for tracking the time of a haul cycle for a haulage vehicle moving between load and dump sites, where each haul cycle is a complete round trip from a load site to a dump site and back to a load site or from a dump site to a load site and back to a dump site, the system comprising:

• means mounted to the vehicle for sensing the loading and unloading of a load carried by the vehicle during each of the haul cycles and providing data in response thereto;
• an electronic processor on-board the vehicle responsive to the data for determining an elapsed time of each of the haul cycles for the vehicle;
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• a storage medium responsive to the electronic processor for creating a historical record of the elapsed times of the haul cycles and processing the record to derive control data for commanding the routing of the vehicle to selected load and dump sites.

A system for acquisitioning and accumulating data indicative of haul cycles executed by a haulage vehicle moving between load and dump sites, where each haul cycle is a complete round trip from a load site to a dump site and back to a load site or from a dump site to a load site and back to a dump site, the system comprising:

• first means mounted to the vehicle for providing a first set of data whose value is indicative of a loading or unloading of material into or from a body of the vehicle during each of the haul cycles;
• second means for providing a second set of data whose value uniquely identifies an entity controlling the vehicle;
• an electronic processor on-board the vehicle for acquiring the first and second sets of data, detecting a change in the value of either the first or second sets of data and providing a third set of data in response to the change, where each third set of data defines a haulage event executed by the vehicle during a haul cycle;
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• a storage medium for accumulating the third set of data from the electronic processor so as to create a historical record of the haulage events.