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Originally Posted by ConnClark
I don't think drivers are taking them off just because of looks. If your in a place with a lot of step hills the covers reduce brake cooling and thus braking. I can see these as being of use on the plains but in hilly or mountainous areas they could lead to run away trucks. Braking distance is bad enough on a semi under these conditions they don't want to make it worse.
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I don't think the Schneider corporation would do anything that would jeopardize their drivers, vehicles, or the bottom line (clients' payload) by adding on items that would decrease the safety factor without intensive testing under all conditions that their vehicles would perform under. I know fer a fact that they tested this fer over a year before they agreed to install them on a bigger sample size. They did this exclusive of what the inventor/manufacturer of the Deflecktor claimed...
I do know that the Deflecktor isn't lasting as long as one might want to believe. My brother (Schneider driver who got me the photos) found a bunch of them in a pile torn and tattered before they went with the bigger sample size. I wanted him to git me one of the beat up ones...but didn't really want to put his job at risk fer "unauthorized removal" of Schneider property...