Tanker Shuttle

Without hydrants, the water supply is a loop of trucks. One tanker's steady supply is its load divided by a full round trip — add trucks until the fleet keeps up with the fire. Pairs with the Fire Flow calculator: that one estimates demand, this one estimates supply.

Tanker capacity (gallons)

Dump time (minutes) — optional

Blank uses the maneuvering floor (2 min).

Travel time, one way (minutes)

Fill time (minutes) — optional

Blank uses the maneuvering floor (2 min). Check the fill site can actually load a tanker that fast.

Tankers in the shuttle

Target sustained flow (GPM) — optional

Fill in to see how many tankers the target takes.

Enter values above to see the result.