Quagmire Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 The air spilling off the front of a truck is immense! If i ever end up in a situation with a truck beside me (nose of cab inline or just in front of back edge of my doors) all the draughts I get in the cab increase x10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wack61 Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 If you are slipstreaming keep an eye on what's behind you, the one thing you don't want to be is the meat in a 88 Tonne artic sandwich. I had an example of how much damage trucks do last year on the M6 I was in my Iveco pickup towing a trailer so no outside lane M6 just before j6 northbound, middle lane doing about 20mph as there'd been a crash on the A38M so there was a long queue in the inside lane. In front of me a skip wagon probably 17T with 2 skips one on top of the other full of sawdust. I was about 15m behind him when I heard a loud bang and he started rolling back, I hit the horn but he just kept coming until my truck stopped him when I got out he'd run into the back of an artic, the rear doors of the artic trailer had crushed the cab trapping him inside Another driver blocked the outside lane so we could get him out but the doors were jammed, it took the fire brigade and a hydraulic cutter to get him out I was there for about an hour, turns out he was really lucky as he walked away but the truck was a write off. the 2 skips had slid forward snapping the lifting gear off as they went and hitting the back of the cab this was a 20mph crash, If he'd been doing 5mph more I think he'd be dead, if a car had been between them I think they would have been dead Motorways are dangerous places, it's only when you witness a low speed impact like this it brings home the amount of damage trucks can do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNissanPrairie Posted November 20, 2010 Author Share Posted November 20, 2010 like I said, I wasn't that close, just enough that the Megacube trailer stopped the gusts of wind from slowing me, he brake checked me twice, the 2nd time really hard, I wasnt anywhere near hitting the back and there was very other little traffic on the m-way (it was pretty late on the M66 just north of Bury). I guess the ES driver was probably a bit freaked out why someone was following him closely on an empty m-way. Whenever I see a lone HGV coming up behind, once they start to overtake I slow down to let them past so they don't end up taking ages to overtake (im usually doing 55ish mph), he probably 'ticked' me off his list-'slow landrover, check mirrors, indicate, pull out, ok I've been flashed back in by the Lanny, flash indicators to thank him, what's for tea, what's my next drop, etc etc...........who the bloody hell is that following behind? I'll sort him out........oh its that bloody slow Landrover again...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbocharger Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 You can see distance required for slipstreaming - in heavy rain there's a dry 'triangle' behind a curtainsider, which comes to a point on the centreline and maybe 20ft behind the trailer. The more bonnet you can poke into that triangle, the more fuel you'll save - but at what cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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