The only thing the truck won’t be able to do is cross a railroad track, back down into a loading dock, or enter a parking lot with any kind of a curb.
I didn’t see any mention of costs either.
But it would probably be the winner at a science fair.
Simple. Just spend several billion dollars redesigning every RR crossing and building thousands of cross-docking facilities to transfer the load from the “supertruck” trailers to a normal truck and trailer. /s
........what if the skirts on the truck were just real tough rubber?
You raise a hell of a good point?
I like another poster’s comment on how 65,000 lbs ain’t blank. Plus, I35 in Austin is a parking lot all day long. Maybe between 2am and 5am you could get through at 65mph.
Look at the second picture, of the tractor alone. It looks like the skirts on the rear wheels rotate up 90 degrees, over the top of the wheels.. I’m guessing the skirts on the trailer do the same, lowering on highways to achieve optimal aerodynamic efficiency at highway speeds.