Aerodynamic Heavy-Duty Truck Trailer Cuts Fuel Consumption and Emissions By Up to 15% (SKIRTS!)

www.greencarcongress.com ^ | 04/18/2008 | Staff

[AZHSer]

Trucks, SUVs, and vans loaded way beyond capacity with illegals.

[Old Flat Toad]

What /\He/\ said. DOT will prolly require these new fenderskirts to come with hand and foot rests.

[tubebender]

Sometime back in the early 80s my wife made a solo trip to Reno in Sept. The weather didn't look good from Susanville on and it made her nervous plus the weather reports were bleak saying it was a freak storm. She got up the next morning and called me to say she was coming home. It rained up 395 to SV and from there on it was a blinding snowstorm over 44.

She caught up with a big rig and followed him over the plateau until they hit the rain down into Old Station where he let her pass and it poured all the way to Weaverville. She said the Big Rig was the Pied Piper as the cars stacked up behind them and not one vehicle tried to pass...

[Pete-R-Bilt]

Oh and I forgot to show you how the Black truck is comming along...

I don't need no stinkin aerodynamics, its just a hobby...

[tubebender]

My son says he’ll pay you $50 if you’ll park that rig in front of his business. You don’t have to give him a answer until Sunday night...

[B4Ranch]

Nice. Yup, I like it.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

He’ll have to come get it, I won’t be back over there till Monday night...

o and it needs fuel, the up side is, it has smaller tanks on it than the Tan Pete

only about $850. to fill her...

[Squantos]

Sweet rig........lots of pride in that is visable !!!

Stay safe !

[tubebender]

There is enough diesel floating on the ground water here Eureka to run a fleet for a year...

[LasVegasMac]

When you think about it, it is the worst hazard you can encounter on a highway.

Will you stop with the whinning about the spray from a big rig?

This is the second post you have whinned about it.....man up dude!

I drive a 2005 Tahoe.....it came with wiper blades! I was flat out stunned to find that I could control the speed - slow to fast.

I've actually had to set the wiper speed to fast when over taking / being passed by a big rig in the rain.

Obviously, what ever you drive is lacking this new technology - get your money back!

And 'no', the worst hazard on the road are IDIOT drivers.

[Windcatcher]

I can't believe this hasn't caught on yet. Ten years ago, if anyone remembers, there was a TV show called Beyond 2000. In one episode they showed a concept tractor-trailer designed to save fuel, be safer, etc. It featured skirts that covered the wheels, panels that expanded to cover the gap between rig and trailer, and curved trailing edge above the doors with vents to reduce turbulence. The fuel savings was estimated at around 25%, I think. It also had cameras along the front and side mirrors, with screens that better showed the truck's blind spots than mirrors alone. I think it was developed by Mercedes, but don't hold me to that. The fuel-saving technologies looked inexpensive to implement and I'm surprised that ten years later we still haven't seen them yet.

[r9etb]

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT TOOK THIS LONG FOR SOMEBODY TO COME UP WITH THIS!!...

What's ironic is that a friend of mine figured this out as part of his junior aero project, back in 1984....

[LasVegasMac]

Dude! That is awesome!

I yelled at Nathan (room - PS III), "Come look at what our bud is up to!"

He said, "that's sick!" - translation - "very cool!"

"Coming along.." - ? What else?

And go see my post #50 on this thread. I wonder how some people survive day to day......sheer luck, I guess.

Mac

[LasVegasMac]

Forgot to add....we need to see a 2 meter antenna sticking out........

One test - easy - and you'd be talking 500 miles in front and back of you.

No Cannon / Nikon issue here - Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, Alinco, etc.

:)

[tubebender]

Trucker saves drunks life

[glock rocks]

President!

[LasVegasMac]

President!

Proud member of the Fuqarwe tribe.

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[B4Ranch]

O/O

[glock rocks]

Fuqarwe

[patton]

LOL - was the last time that goat in Kentucky?