Aggregate gravel hauling software that captures the pit ticket, the tons and the standby as they happen
Aggregate gravel hauling is the trucking of crushed stone, sand and gravel from a pit or quarry to a job site, paid by the ton or by the load with standby and haul distance on top. The United States produces roughly 1.5 billion tons of crushed stone a year, federal axle limits cap a tandem group at 34,000 pounds, and pit access requires training under 30 CFR part 46. Neurobird captures the ticket at the pit and turns a week of loads into an invoice.
Neurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling in short
- Capture the pit ticket digitally at the moment of loading
- Track tons hauled and standby minutes per truck, per job, per day
- Warn on axle group weight before the truck leaves the pit rather than at the scale
- 1.5 billion Approximate annual US crushed stone production in tons, the raw material behind nearly every road, foundation and concrete pour in the country. USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries, crushed stone
- 80,000 lb The federal gross vehicle weight limit on the interstate system, alongside 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 pounds on a tandem axle group. FHWA, truck size and weight
- Pricing runs 35 to 150 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.
What aggregate and gravel hauling contractors actually deal with
Why it stays broken
The ticket is a piece of paper because the pit gives you a piece of paper. Everything downstream, payment, job costing, driver pay, waits for that paper to reach a desk. So the whole business runs at the speed of a truck cab.
Forty minutes of unrecorded standby on 6 trucks is 240 truck minutes a day that nobody bills.
Aggregates : Vehicles transporting rock, sand, gravel, coal, and flour may exceed the State axle limits by no more than 5 percent while traveling on non-Interstate highways (Okla.
What actually governs a loaded gravel truck
Useful if you are quoting haul rates or training drivers. Each source links out.
Approximate annual US crushed stone production in tons, the raw material behind nearly every road, foundation and concrete pour in the country.
USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries, crushed stoneThe federal gross vehicle weight limit on the interstate system, alongside 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 pounds on a tandem axle group.
FHWA, truck size and weightThe federal regulation setting truck size and weight limits and the bridge formula, which is why axle spacing changes what you can legally carry.
eCFR, 23 CFR part 658New miner training under the part 46 programme, with annual refresher training of 8 hours, applies to sand, gravel and surface stone operations including contractors on site.
eCFR, 30 CFR 46.5MSHA enforces training plans, records and site specific hazard awareness for everyone entering an aggregate operation, including delivery and haul drivers.
MSHANeurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling Dispatch Platform
Capture the load where it happens. The pit ticket, the tons, the job and the clock all become data at the moment of loading rather than at the end of the week.
- 1Capture the pit ticket digitally at the moment of loading
- 2Track tons hauled and standby minutes per truck, per job, per day
- 3Warn on axle group weight before the truck leaves the pit rather than at the scale
- 4Turn a week of tickets into an invoice without retyping any of them
What changes with Neurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling?
The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.
| Today | With Neurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling |
|---|---|
| Payment runs on paper tickets that ride around in a truck cab all week and arrive at the office folded, greasy and sometimes not at all | Capture the pit ticket digitally at the moment of loading |
| Standby time at the paver is real money and nobody records it, so it never appears on an invoice | Track tons hauled and standby minutes per truck, per job, per day |
| An overweight axle group at a portable scale is a fine and a citation, and the driver had no way to know before pulling out of the pit | Warn on axle group weight before the truck leaves the pit rather than at the scale |
Who is this for?
Same load, three different businesses.
You run one truck
You are paid by the ton and you invoice from a stack of tickets. You need the ticket captured at the pit and the invoice to write itself.
You run 6 to 20 trucks
Dispatch, tons and standby across several jobs at once. You need a board that reflects where the trucks actually are.
You haul for your own jobs
Haul cost is a line in your job cost. You need tons and standby allocated to the phase rather than to a general bucket.
How does Neurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling work?
Ticket at the pit
Material, tons, job and timestamp captured on the phone as the truck pulls off the scale, with the paper ticket photographed and attached.
Run the clock honestly
Standby at the pit and at the job recorded as it happens, so the free period and the billable minutes are both defensible.
Invoice from the record
A week of loads becomes an invoice and a driver pay line without anyone retyping a ticket.
The haul day, as your dispatcher would run it
A working preview. Tick a load to move it through the day.
Drag a job onto a driver to assign it.
Aggregate gravel hauling software questions, answered
Key terms
- What is aggregate gravel hauling?
- Aggregate gravel hauling is the trucking of crushed stone, sand and gravel from a pit or quarry to a job site, usually paid by the ton or by the load with standby and haul distance layered on top. It is high volume and low margin: the United States produces roughly 1.5 billion tons of crushed stone a year and almost all of it moves by truck.
Why do axle weights matter more than gross weight?
Because federal limits on the interstate system cap not only the 80,000 pound gross but also 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 pounds on a tandem axle group, plus a bridge formula that governs axle spacing. A truck can be legal on gross and still be over on an axle group, which is where most citations come from.
What training does MSHA require to enter a pit?
Sand, gravel and surface stone operations fall under 30 CFR part 46. New miner training is 24 hours, with a portion completed before starting work, and every miner needs 8 hours of annual refresher training. Truck drivers entering the pit need site specific hazard awareness training even if they never leave the cab.
How is standby time usually handled?
Badly. Most haul agreements allow standby after a free period, but the clock is kept in the driver's head and written on the ticket if at all. Capturing it as it happens is one of the few pure margin improvements available in the trade.
Does this replace our accounting system?
No. Tickets, tons, standby and job allocation are captured here and exported to whatever you invoice from. The point is to stop the paper ticket being the only record of a load.
Why we are building this
Aggregate hauling is a margin business run on paper. The tons are known at the scale, the standby is known by the driver, and both wait a week to become money.
The federal weight limits are published and the arithmetic is simple. There is no reason a driver should learn about an overweight tandem group from a portable scale on a county road.
We would rather build this with people who run trucks. Tell us how your tickets and your standby actually work, and where we have got it wrong.
Where the requirement comes from
The weight limits and the pit training rules.
- FHWA, truck size and weight Federal gross, single axle and tandem axle limits plus the bridge formula that governs axle spacing.
- eCFR, 23 CFR part 658 The regulation behind truck size and weight limits on the national network.
- eCFR, 30 CFR 46.5 new miner training Training hours and content required before a person works at a sand, gravel or surface stone operation.
- USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries, crushed stone Annual national production, value and end use figures for crushed stone.
How much does Neurobird Aggregate Gravel Hauling cost?
Priced per truck because the truck is the unit that earns. Unlimited tickets, jobs and users on every tier.
- Digital pit tickets
- Tons by job
- Standby clock
- Ticket photo storage
- Email support
- Everything in Owner operator
- Dispatch board
- Axle weight warnings
- Invoice export
- Named contact
- Everything in Fleet
- Job costing by phase
- Broker and subhauler settlement
- MSHA training records
- Onboarding included
Get free early access
If you haul aggregate, tell us how tickets reach the office today and how much standby you think goes unbilled.
Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets the working preview, a say in what ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today.
Prefer email? Write to office@neurobird.com and a person will reply. No autoresponder.