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Weather Spotter 09-14-2010 11:09 AM

Pizza pans on long haul trucks
 
On my recent trip of 1,800 miles I saw lots of long haul trucks, about 10 of these had aero covers on the back two axles of the power unit (cab).

From what I saw as we passed the trucks (I know we were going to fast for FE) the caps looked like a manufactured product, with a hole for checking tire pressure.

The first one I saw turned my head as I went, cool large pizza pans like on my car :)

I only saw these on trucks in Texas, & Oklahoma none in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana or Michigan.

DonR 09-14-2010 11:37 AM

AT Dynamics makes some. They make trailer tails & side skirts as well. I don't know if Mooneyes makes them that big or not.

Don

cfg83 09-14-2010 12:44 PM

Weather Spotter -

Did they have holes for the bolts? There was a trucker on this site who had some installed on his truck. His company did it. Unfortunately I can't find his posts right now.

CarloSW2

Weather Spotter 09-14-2010 01:14 PM

No bolt holes, looked very nicely done, with hole cut out for access to valve stems.

On the trip about 15% of trailers had side skirts, trucks with aero hub caps all had side skirts on the trailers.

BamZipPow 09-14-2010 01:21 PM

This is what Schneider is using on their trucks...

http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-ba...wheel-caps.jpg

Press release... ;)

Deflecktor is the company who makes them... :D

Weather Spotter 09-14-2010 01:35 PM

They looked like the AT Dynamics ones.
I saw some schneider trucks but none of them had wheel covers.

BamZipPow 09-14-2010 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weather Spotter (Post 194040)
They looked like the AT Dynamics ones.
I saw some schneider trucks but none of them had wheel covers.

Schneider only has put them on 1500 of their trucks...they've got a whole bunch of trucks... ;)

Some of the drivers are taking those wheel covers off cause they don't like the way they look... :(

Weather Spotter 09-14-2010 01:41 PM

I like the look of the sliver pizza pans, chrome would be better.

AeroModder 09-14-2010 02:04 PM

I saw some AirTabs on the backsides of a couple trucks a while back. Haven\'t seen the smooth wheels yet. XD

Floyd133 09-14-2010 02:43 PM

I saw some pans on Oak harbor trucks out in Washington


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