Truck Station

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Truck Station
Either send or receive resources to vehicles. Has an inventory with 48 slots. Transfers up to 120 stacks per minute to/from docked vehicles. Always refuels vehicles if it has access to a matching type.
Building
Category	Vehicles
Subcategory	Motor Vehicles
Unlocks at	Tier 3
Operation
Power Usage	20 MW
Overclockable	No
Inputs	2
Outputs	1
Dimensions
Width	16m
Length	22m
Height	12m
Crafting
Ingredients
10 5 25
Resources breakdown [Expand] 10 ×  Modular Frame 30 ×  Reinforced Iron Plate 120 ×  Iron Plate 240 ×  Iron Ingot 240 ×  Iron Ore 720 ×  Screw 120 ×  Iron Rod 120 ×  Iron Ingot 120 ×  Iron Ore 60 ×  Iron Rod 60 ×  Iron Ingot 60 ×  Iron Ore 5 ×  Rotor 110 ×  Screw 19 ×  Iron Rod 19 ×  Iron Ingot 19 ×  Iron Ore 15 ×  Iron Rod 15 ×  Iron Ingot 15 ×  Iron Ore 25 ×  Cable 50 ×  Wire 17 ×  Copper Ingot 17 ×  Copper Ore Total Base Ingredients 454 ×  Iron Ore 17 ×  Copper Ore

A Truck Station is a structure used to transfer items between tractors or trucks and a Conveyor Belt. It has two belt inputs (one for cargo and one for fuel) and one belt output.

The truck station has two belt inputs. The one on the left (facing the inputs), near two tanks on the station, is for fuel. Fuel items of any type can be belted in here and will be stored in the station's fuel slot. Items belted into the right input will be stored in the station's inventory. Note that the station must be powered to accept any input.

When a tractor moves into the 2 x 2 foundation sized area in front of the truck station (visible as a white outline when constructing the station) it will be loaded from the station. Items in the station's fuel slot will be added to the tractor's fuel slot, and items from the station's inventory space will be transferred to the tractor's inventory space. The station will completely load/unload a tractor if the tractor stays a sufficient time in the loading-space. If the tractor doesn't stay long enough, it will not be completely loaded. Note that the station can load only one tractor at a time. The station will only attempt to load / unload a tractor once. If there's room left in the tractor, and the station has received new resources, the tractor will have to leave and re-enter the station to continue loading.

The station consumes 20 MW when there's a vehicle in the loading-bay regardless if the loading/unloading is taking place, but it will not consume energy when there is no vehicle in the bay.

Tips

For greater throughput, consider building clusters of Truck Stations and add more vehicles.

Round trip times

To optimize throughput the time that tractors or trucks should use for one trip depends on the speed with which the origin station is filled or the destination is cleared. It can be calculated as:

max_roundtrip_time = ( numslots * stacksize ) / min( input_items_per_minute, output_items_per_minute )

Roundtrip times in minutes for items that stack to 100 (Oil, Coal, etc.)

Type	Mk.1 belt	Mk.2 belt	Mk.3 belt	Mk.4 belt	Mk.5 belt	Mk.6 belt
Tractor	41m 40s	20m 50s	9m 15s	5m 36s	3m 47s	2m 46s
Truck	80m	40m	17m 46s	10m 40s	7m 16s	5m 20s

Gallery

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  A Truck Station in the E3 2018 presentation, along with a Lookout Tower and Oil Refineries