Your Autonomous Haul Trucks Are Sitting Idle Because You're Not Ready to Run Them
Mining operations deploying autonomous haul trucks are seeing <strong>30-40% utilization rates</strong> in year one, not the promised 85%+. The problem isn't the trucks. It's that most mines haven't rebuilt their operations to actually use them.
You spent fifteen million dollars on a fleet of autonomous haul trucks. The vendor promised 25% productivity gains, reduced operator fatigue, safer pit operations, lower per-ton haulage costs. The trucks arrived, got deployed, and now they're running at a third of what the business case said they would. You're looking at your VP of Operations wondering what went wrong. The answer is sitting in your dispatch office, and nobody wants to talk about it.
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