Improving Aerodynamics?
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As far as aerodynamics in a truck trailer combo you are pulling a aerodynamic brick with some rounded edges being pulled by another brick with rounded edges and the best way to save fuel is to slow down. 5th wheels are better because they only break the wind once were unless you have a bed cap you break the he wind twice with a pull behind trailer. The only time I noticed a change in drag was when we went from a 5th wheel with aluminum siding on the sides and cap to one with smooth sides and fiberglass cap (more rounded smooth edges) and when we changed trucks and went to a DRW that cut a wider path through the air, I could tell by the bugs that committed suicide on the on the trailer that it pushed bigger hole through the air, the bugs were on the fenders instead of the trailer.
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Exactly, hard to find a good hotel in the National Forest . . .
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It depends on how much you travel, how many people you travel with, and how long you keep the trailer...and how much you paid for it. For instance, my parents had the same trailer from my birth until my younger brother was about 6 years old, so 12 years. With 4 kids and traveling a LOT during the summer, they definitely came out ahead, since most hotels limit you to 4-5 guests per room.
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My family spent eight weeks in '71 and seven weeks in '73 TENT camping in the American West. NOWHERE where we were tent camping was close to where 'nature' was... In '71 we spent over three weeks camping above 10,000' elevation in Colorado alone - not too many hotels/motels up there -- a week on Grand Mesa, a week at Taylor Reservoir... Today I couldn't go back to those places -- even if I wanted to, because those memories of my youth would be changed by what they have become over the past 50+ years. RVs did not exist, and even travel trailers were not as common. When we camped, there was no electricity. No water, and no Internet. Just nature.
Five years later, I alone traveled by bicycle across the American Midwest <500miles each way... Cleveland to Milwaukee/Madison and back. Three weeks, and 1400 miles, although the middle portion of that was visiting family. 100miles/day. 100 miles is just six hours at 16mph! I slept under bridges/culverts. No shelter. No tent. Just cardboard. Two 'extra' changes of clothes. I survived just fine!
Five years later, I alone traveled by bicycle across the American Midwest <500miles each way... Cleveland to Milwaukee/Madison and back. Three weeks, and 1400 miles, although the middle portion of that was visiting family. 100miles/day. 100 miles is just six hours at 16mph! I slept under bridges/culverts. No shelter. No tent. Just cardboard. Two 'extra' changes of clothes. I survived just fine!
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I alone traveled by bicycle across the American Midwest <500miles each way... Cleveland to Milwaukee/Madison and back. Three weeks, and 1400 miles, although the middle portion of that was visiting family. 100miles/day. 100 miles is just six hours at 16mph! I slept under bridges/culverts. No shelter. No tent. Just cardboard. Two 'extra' changes of clothes. I survived just fine!
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