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Originally Posted by kach22i
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Our latest trailers have a vestigial lip. Splitter.
I’d sure like to try the above full form.
BUT trailers take damage. Surprising amount at front. Usually as it’s getting jockeyed around by a yard dog at a shipper.
The trailer pictured is a high dollar unit. That stainless plate ain’t cheap and it’s heavy. Plus, there’s little call for a man door (again, expense & weight). What we see is a covered wagon with sliding cover. A flatbed with a permanent “headboard kit”. Mated to a high-profile aero tractor. That cover reduces aero drag by over 9.8% according to the print on the back of one I was following the other day.
Flatbeds can generally use a flat-top tractor (the type where you lay in bed to git them Wranglers on). Low light tractor and light trailer mean good economy with a huge payload (50-52K in some instance. I max out at 45.2k with a van and midroof).
The pic is also what we’d very likely see with a one-of-a-kind trailer mated to a custom tractor. The sort of units I see with mobile broadcast facilities, etc. A trailer that, with gear aboard, is worth millions.
“Aero” is, let’s make the insurer happy (reduction of driver workload).
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