The average tandem axle truck can carry about 12 cubic yards of soil. Generally, a tandem axle truck has three axles.
You would need 31.88 cubic yards of topsoil to cover 855 sq feet at 6 inches deep.
It depends on the size of the dump trucks, but assuming a standard dump truck can hold about 10-15 cubic yards of dirt, it would take approximately 260,000 to 390,000 dump trucks to move 3.9 million cubic yards of dirt.
You will need approximately 1 cubic yard of dirt for a trench that is 1 foot wide, 36 feet long, and 3 inches deep.
A 40 lb bag of topsoil typically covers about 3-4 square feet at a depth of 1 inch. Since 1 cubic yard is equal to 27 cubic feet, you would need approximately 9-12 bags to make up 1 cubic yard of topsoil.
There are 27 cubic feet in a cubic yard. So, if you have 1 cubic yard of dirt, it is equivalent to 27 cubic feet of dirt.
I would like to see 20 cubic yards on a tandem. I would hate to pay that overload ticket.
17 tons
10 cubic yds per load
0.619 cubic yards.
1 cubic meter is 1.308 cubic yards.
440,740.741 cubic yards.
There are approximately 1.30795 cubic yards in a cubic meter.
About 25 tons.
11 cubic yards
That is approximately 16.741 cubic yards
40 cubic feet = 1.481 cubic yards.
837 cubic feet = 31 cubic yards.