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Old 05-17-2015, 01:53 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Baltothewolf View Post
A lot of trucks in California rock the side skirts/moon disks/trailer tails. I talked to quite a few truckers over the course of me working in security at a truck gate. The gains are actually quite good from reports. One fellow I remember talking to said at 55mph he gained 3mpg increase, from 9mpg to 12mpg. It may not seem like much, but when you do close to 50k miles a year, the savings are enormous!
9 MPG = 11.1x Gallons per hundred miles

12 MPG = 8.5 Gallons per hundred miles

Per thousand:

9 MPG = 111.x Gallons per 1k

12 MPG = 85 Gallons per 1k

And ten thousand:

9 = 1,11x Gallons per 10k
12 = 850 Gallons per 10k

Yep.
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