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Old 07-09-2020, 10:08 AM   #22 (permalink)
MeteorGray
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Quote: "...4) I've no personal knowledge of light vehicles sent into ditches in response to a commercial vehicle. Hucho devoted an entire chapter to concerns about this sort of thing. In 1990, the first time I went to Bonneville, about 10-miles east of the raceway, a triple-trailer rig was laying on it's side, west-bound on I-80. There's a price for load floors 48-inches off the ground and square-edged trailer sides. ( stupid American manufacturers )
5) empty boxcars would succumb the same way as an 18-wheeler. ( stupid American boxcar manufacturers )...."

The box design is stupid in terms of exterior aerodynamics, but brilliant in terms of construction cost and cargo space utilization.

Every design has its consequences.

Pay your money and take your choice. :-)
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