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Originally Posted by Arminius
Last month I drafted a semi from Milwaukee to St. Paul. I stayed 3 seconds behind and my van's FE went from 18 mpg to 27.6 mpg at 60 mph.
However, the semi driver eventually called the police on me because he didn't like me behind him. No ticket - just a close call.
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3 seconds is quite a distance at 60 mph, about 250 feet, I think you must've been a bit closer
It's funny though what you can get away with depending on the situation, in heavy traffic doing 60mph you could follow at 1 second and the trucker wouldn't think twice, it lighter traffic the trucker notices what you are doing and then may have a problem with it.
I can see their side of it, I'm sure they see more stupidity than most of us. To them, a drafter is a potential rear ender and then they have to stop for all the accident report stuff. I assume they don't get paid to stand around and wait for a new trailer either.
Ian