Aerodynamics vs. Appearance

This guy knows !!

 

Really? Based on every single one of your responses you show that you don't know what you're talking about. I am not the only one who has called you out on your "better mileage at ANY cost is worth it attitude". Even Kevin Rutherford, who is the high priest of the church of getting good mileage, knows this isn't true.

Go ahead, spend your thousands of dollars in order to save hundreds. Brag about bumping your mileage up 10%, but your ROI is negative.

 

I have a question. If you have larger tanks to fill up on less expensive fuel, would it be worth the extra weight or would smaller tanks be better.

But then again, I guess guys always loaded near 79,xxx would rather have smaller tanks to carry more load.

 

When I ran regional in the Northwest we had a single 120 gallon tank. We had a nice 60" box under the bunk on the passenger side. When new guys would complain about having to fuel every day my boss's answer was always "We don't get paid to haul fuel. We get paid to haul wood."

Having pulled a curtain van before I'm here to say that it pulled harder than my cattle trailer. It was like dragging a plow down the road. Given the operation he's described I doubt the return would be there if he went chasing fuel mileage. Stop and go with limited highway miles I'd go for looks over trying for mileage. A daycab cools off and warms up fairly quickly so he should be able to shut it off during loading and unloading.

 

Dear God the OPs operation is 2/3 HIGHWAY!!
UGH !!

 

Fairings are HARDLY expensive.
Rutherford? LMAO.

You should try pulling a flatbed with truck caps sometime.....lmao, talk about drag!

 

Just a reminder in case anyone forgot.
Most highways are 55+ mph these days. LOL

 

True and at roughly 1000 highway miles per week the return wouldn't be there to chase fuel mileage simply based on his low consumption.

 

But he is not pulling a rack full of caps. If he is doing Conestoga, he is pulling steel or other metal. It needs to be tarped, which is a lot cleaner than that.

You know what is dirty in more ways than one? Empty trash transfer trailers without door open and no aerotarp.

 

All the skirts add extra weight. You know how boastful equipment mfrs are when they design a new piece that is only 5-10 lbs lighter than previous? Trailers skirts and a roof shield must be close to a hunnert pounds.
Chop off the DPF and muffler and lose over a hunnert.

Do you need a full height stogie? Chop a few feet off the height would help a lot for mileage.

 

Unless a daycab can be spec'd to have a minimal gap between the fairings and the trailer,a rooffairing will not really help MPG.

In the case off the OP,i would not put any fairing on that cab,the gap is just to big.
The only option is to put a "windbreaker" at the front off the trailer.