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Bulk runs

English translation: transportation of articles in buckets (skips)

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English term or phrase:Bulk runs
Selected answer:transportation of articles in buckets (skips)
Entered by: Jack Doughty

12:10 Jan 23, 2018
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
English term or phrase: Bulk runs
"Bulk runs does not involve as much lifting and it would be lighter work compared to doing bucket runs."

Explanation about a driving job, and there are two options: bulk runs and bucket runs. What would that be?
Mindaugas Vasinauskas
Lithuania
Local time: 18:29
transportation of articles in buckets (skips)
Explanation:
I think this means the transportation of "bulk" goods (friable material, grain etc.) carried in large trucks, into which the material is simply poured. This is less work than "bucket" runs, in which a truck is loaded with a number of containers of some kind before being ready to depart.
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:29
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bulk runs
transportation of articles in buckets (skips)


Explanation:
I think this means the transportation of "bulk" goods (friable material, grain etc.) carried in large trucks, into which the material is simply poured. This is less work than "bucket" runs, in which a truck is loaded with a number of containers of some kind before being ready to depart.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:29
Does not meet criteria
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 31

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
9 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  philgoddard: Yes, run means journey.
44 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
8 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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