Tool Box for Dry Van trailer with skirts

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  1. ducnut

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    Which is that?
     
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  3. Siinman

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    I’ll read up on those, as I’ve never heard of the brand.
     
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    They are the best I have seen so far with my research. Not sure how much they cost, sure it is a pretty penny.
     
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    What I would caution you about are all the moving parts. It’s just like aero tails and skirts using fiberglass rods that bolt into brackets, the pivots and associated hardware all wears out. Wind never stops, even when the truck stops. We went through some of this, at Dot. They finally switched to rigid-mounted solutions, to get away from constantly replacing parts.

    I’d keep it as simple as possible and do what Henry Albert and Nussbaum have done with their full-length skirts. There are only the flip-up panels at the tandems, which is a manageable amount of hardware to deal with. You could run the skirting all the way up to your Flow Below system. It looks clean, so should be clean to airflow.
     
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  7. Siinman

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    I will not be adding that system to this trailer. Would really look into it if I was ordering a new trailer. I do agree with you as well so would have to go look at the system in person and see how it is made before purchasing something like that. It really is a good Idea though if it is made right.
     
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    Their website on the bottom said average fuel savings is 1mpg. That is absolute blasphemy. No side skirt on a trailer will give you a full mpg.
     
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    Yeah I dont believe that either but it will do better than most of them I have seen. They extend when you have to move the tandems and in that case it very well could add 1 MPH in some instances.
     
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