Figuring Out Yards of Soil in a Dump Truck
If you're planning a massive garden overhaul or leveling out a bumpy lawn, you're probably trying to figure out exactly how many yards of soil in a dump truck you can actually expect to show up. It's one of those questions that seems simple until you realize that dump trucks come in about a dozen different sizes and "a truckload" isn't exactly a legal unit of measurement. Nothing stalls a weekend project faster than ordering way too much dirt and having a literal mountain left over, or worse, coming up three yards short when the sun is setting and your back is already killing you. ...