Introducing the Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience concept truck

This is very similar to what Airflow Truck Company is doing:

http://www.airflowtruck.com

http://www.overdriveonline.com/at-13-4-mpg-the-future-of-aero-trucking/

They achieved 13.4 mpg on a real world coast to coast run. IMHO the biggest gain to be had right now is going to be from reducing air drag.

 

Do you have to buy your own dresses, or do they come with the truck?

 

For the money you save in fuel, you could buy all the dresses you want....

 

Why would it not make to the real road? What is the problem with getting 13 plus miles per gallon. Oil companies are against it or something?

 

Never mind them ! Some people will never see that cutting cost is the same as making more . Heck lets do both ! Make more spent less . We got several Freightliner evo on the road, got 14 LNG trucks coming( 3 on road now) , 40 gliders coming (5 on road) . Our gliders are coming in at 2/3 cost of new! Getting far better mileage . LNG trucks cost savings is there, but the customer demanded them for emissions . But in the long run operating cost will be lower , on that account .
Now some of the aero stuff is still in question . Conway had put side skirts on most of their trailers, then pulled them off . They went to the under tray system . Real world numbers looked better and less damage prone . The trailer tail setup looks good on paper , but looks like it would be easily crushed ( have had rear of my trailer bumped more then a few times at truck stops). Driver backing in from the other side crushes it , he is not sticking around to do the paperwork !?! That said the aero on the truck it self the driver has far more control over damage. Have watched side skirts crushed backing into in ground docks (the hump at the break over angle) . My self have had landing gear rub backing into a few docks , if I have had side skirts they would been smashed? And had not done anything wrong !