Waiting on New Trucks thread.

You know they did or they would’ve went back.

 

My last truck was technically an aero truck and was horrible on fuel. It had an 18spd and 3.36’s and 265” wheelbase. Not very aero once you got past the hood and cab. So it is about the specs.

 

Not necessarily- CARB rules might have come into play. A certain percentage of the fleet must meet fuel economy standard as listed by the manufacturer.

 

So again, the load is being used to negate the tractor. That’s simply not how things work. The tractor’s aerodynamics are a factor, regardless of the load. It’s an independent piece of the equation. The tractor is the first thing the air sees. It’s like saying a cabover gets the same fuel mileage as an aero tractor, because they’re both pulling “X”.

 

Well compare apples to apples then. If you cannot say the aero truck had the same spec as the flat nose truck then it is not the same comparing. Sorry it just is not a good comparison and especially when you say it had 200 HP less. Now I am not saying an aero truck in an open deck is gonna bring 2 mpg better either. Now if you want to run spec to match an aero truck vs a flat nose I would bet all day long on the aero truck. You spec the best trucks of each kind running legal 80K weight and the aero will do better in MPG all day long.

 

That is still a hell of a lot of side loading and dwell time. Befitting of an engine wearing a plastic oil pan though.

 

Not sure when that went into effect, but, they’ve been running aero stuff for a couple decades.

 

Ha Ha I seen that. Smacked dude a couple times and dude #####ed up as fast as he was talking ####. Mike did hold back on that and tried to be nice before hand. Dude deserved it like no other in my mind.

 

What that suppose to mean to what I said? You still wearing that clown face or did you wise up and take that girl make up off?

 

Idk. It may be in the van world. But my point is, similar specd trucks in the open deck world would be relatively the same. Id be willing to bet alot of money on it. Only because ive seen it with my own eyes and lived it for multiple years... According to the logic in this thread i shouldve been doing 2 to 3mpg better than my buddies that had a hood. Only because i had a aero fleet spec truck. And that was simply not the case . not even close...

How does a guy explain 5 trucks all getting the same fuel mileage within .5 mpg... But yet 2 are aeros and 3 are hoods.... That defys the law of everything being talked about here.... These were all the same loads , to the same jobsites on the same days of the week. On the same routes. Everything is the same.. Different trucks. Similar specs. A perfect test to see the real difference... And there was no 1 that was better then the other... In a world full of van trailers.. Sure there would be a difference, im not arguing against that point..