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Old 09-14-2010, 11:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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.

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

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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.

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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.
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They looked like the AT Dynamics ones.
I saw some schneider trucks but none of them had wheel covers.
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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...
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I like the look of the sliver pizza pans, chrome would be better.
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I saw some AirTabs on the backsides of a couple trucks a while back. Haven't seen the smooth wheels yet. XD
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Old 09-14-2010, 02:43 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I saw some pans on Oak harbor trucks out in Washington

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