Patent ID: 8528988

Claim:
Method for milling a ground surface with a milling machine removing the ground surface, by milling the ground surface along a milling track having a length, by transporting the milled material via a conveying device to at least one container of a truck that travels along next to the milling machine, said truck having a maximum loading volume per load, and by replacing a fully loaded truck with an unloaded truck when the maximum loading volume of a truck load has been reached, characterized by (a) calculation of a maximum total loading volume resulting over the length of the milling track as a function of a current effective working width and a milling depth, (b) calculation of a required number of truck loads required for the maximum total loading volume of the milling track, (c) determination of an effective total loading volume of the milling track, which results from the volume of the whole number of truck loads nearest to the required number of truck loads, and (d) adjustment of an adjustable total milling volume of the milling machine over the length of the milling track to correspond to the effective total loading volume so that the total milling volume of the milling machine results in a whole number of truck loads.