New Trailer Tools Save Fuel, Raise Productivity, Firms Say

By Rip Watson and Neil Abt, Senior Reporters

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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Enhancements to trailer productivity were spotlighted recently as suppliers offered several approaches to fleets for improving productivity by either lowering fuel costs or increasing payloads.

Aerofficient LLC presented hinged side fairings and announced an order of 5,000 units from U.S. Xpress Enterprises for the new equipment during American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

ATDynamics Inc. launched a campaign to install 50,000 of its “trailer tails,” while Transtex Composite Inc. and Solus Solutions and Technologies LLC also displayed their series of aerodynamic products for truck trailers.

In addition, Alutrec Inc. said it was introducing an aluminum flatbed trailer that could increase payloads by as much as 5,000 pounds.

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