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Old 04-10-2009, 10:28 PM   #20 (permalink)
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This is a really cool thread. Welcome to the forum.

One thing I'd have to wonder is what proportion of your resistance is rolling vs. aero. I assume rolling is much, much higher compared to a car. (Which presumably is why they are switching to the singles for more efficiency.) So what about tire pressure - does everyone automatically run at some "maximum" there?

Do you have any say in how tight your cab/trailer gap is? I have read that the smaller the gap, the better.

I sometimes see trucks from the same company traveling really close together on the freeway (less than a truck length apart). Presumably they're doing this to save fuel. In that case, the two drivers would have to agree to split the prize.
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