Patent ID: 11939147
Assignee: ATLAS SAND COMPANY, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, wherein:
the truck of the long combination vehicle is a first truck;
when a third one of the trailers is transported to the proppant depot:
the third trailer is coupled to a second truck; and
the container(s) of the third trailer contain proppant; and

loading proppant into the container(s) of each of the first and second trailers at the proppant depot comprises:
transferring proppant from the container(s) of the third trailer to a silo while the third trailer is coupled to the second truck; and
transferring proppant from the silo to the container(s) of each of the first and second trailers while the first trailer is coupled to the first truck and the second trailer is coupled to the first trailer.