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Originally Posted by euromodder
Donbur trailers ?
They don't reduce the volume compared to regular trailers.
There's actually more volume in them, though i'd think it's hard to use.
They use the UK regulations (which allows higher trailers than continental Europe) to make their hump-backed trailers more fuel efficient, yet still fitting loading docks.
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euromodder -
No offence to you folks or the rigs on the other side of the big pond was intended. I was not talking about those Donbur trailers, but the MAN trailer in the attached pic of my post. But even that Donbur teardrop box van trailer would reduce volume
considerably here in the U.S.A. I did specify about them being "completely dopey, completely impracticable" using them
here in the U.S. Thousands of interstate highway underpasses here are only 14' high. And we run trailers with a maximum height of 13'6" for 6" of clearance between the top of the trailer, and the bottom of the underpass. So if someone was to use a trailer like that MAN or the Donbur teardrop, volume would be adversely affected as the limiting factor would be the height of the trailer driving under a bridge. So if one slopes down the rear of the cargo carrying part of a trailer here in the U.S., there is no way it will carry the same volume. And while one could certainly back up to a loading dock, and load and un-load that Donbur teardrop, one could not with the MAN trailer.
My 53' dry van has a 110" inside height and a 101" inside width. So it will carry 4089 cubic feet of cargo. To still be able to drive under the bridges, and slope down the cargo carrying rear, it would carry considerably less.