TECHNO-TRAILERS * USA: SmartTruck TopKit

* South Carolina - SmartTruck TopKit offers 'Near-invisible" aero improvement for trailers

  --  SmartTruck Systems’ TopKit Fairing System, an innovative approach to aerodynamically increasing long-haul trucking fuel mileage, was confirmed to reduce aerodynamic drag by 10.5 percent in an independent study conducted by the SimCenter at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, it was announced today. The research independently confirms and quantifies TopKit’s performance in directly reducing the low pressure wake that creates drag behind all dry van trailers, refrigerated trailers, and straight trucks... The TopKit system was designed to provide a nearly invisible alternative to side skirts, boat tails and other devices that extend far from a trailer’s outside edges and create durability concerns as well as blocking access to the trailer for routine inspections and maintenance... The design of TopKit also eliminates the increased heating of tires and brakes that can result from the use of underside-based systems, according to the company, while SmartTruck’s top-based aerodynamic solution reduces the opportunity for damage from dock or intermodal operations...
(Photo: SmartTruck)   --  Greenville, S.C., USA - Virtual Strategy Magazine - April 02, 2015