Side skirts on the flat bed.

[skyking]

4bd1t!

[mackerel]

I hear what people are saying about closing the front gap, but listen: Pablo is a work truck. Sometimes he's going to do un-aerodynamic things. The idea is that the bed can be fitted with lots of different options, including the wood sides you see in the picture, or an aerodynamic shell, or the farm stock sides. My goal is good mileage and to haul home as much useful stuff as I can for the garden and house.

For instance, here's Pablo with eleven 32-gallon trash cans full of dead crab bodies.



Here's the rust victim, Pablo's predecessor, hauling rockweed (a kind of seaweed) for the garden.



So nothing too fancy. Remember that as it is, I have to remove the side skirts to change a tire.

[skyking]

that bed has to twist. I think you nailed it myself.

[Coroner]

mackerel,

Certainly understand needing the flexibility out in the real world. It is still possible to get that conversion area handled by using the back of the cab. Look at the semi-tractors and take the rear of the cab fairing idea with a little upgrade and flair to push the air out past, or at least to the edge of the side skirts. Even if they don't touch, pushing the air out to the edge will smooth out the transition the air goes through right behind the cab.

I've worked with stake trucks, too. You could mod this and still not interfere with the flatbed loading area and all of it's configuration demands.

It still comes down to dollars and cents as well. Would making the behind the cab mod actually pay off? I don't know. It's something to think about though.

Respectfully,
Mark

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Coroner

It is still possible to get that conversion area handled by using the back of the cab. Look at the semi-tractors and take the rear of the cab fairing idea with a little upgrade and flair to push the air out past, or at least to the edge of the side skirts. Even if they don't touch, pushing the air out to the edge will smooth out the transition the air goes through right behind the cab. (...) I've worked with stake trucks, too. You could mod this and still not interfere with the flatbed loading area and all of it's configuration demands.

That was exactly what I meant. Look at the air deflectors from big rigs

It still comes down to dollars and cents as well. Would making the behind the cab mod actually pay off? I don't know. It's something to think about though.

It can happen not so fast as it does for a commercial trucker, but it certainly pays-off. Well, with an old-school 'Yota, the time for the pay-off doesn't seem to be a problem, since they can last almost forever