transport creating a carbon footprint that is quite significant. Of course, the issue of disposal is still not resolved. Carbon is absorbed by plants and as long as we don’t go past the point where our plant life is oversupplied, we shouldn’t have serious issues, notwithstanding what some governments are claiming. Those same plants provide us with oxygen, which is necessary for our existence. Yes, it’s a good thing we’re considering our carbon footprint, after all our goals and objectives must be to leave this world for the next generation in better shape than it was presented to the previous generation. The fact is that many other products are available to mitigate and improve fuel mileage no matter what the motive fuel is. EcoFins, available at www.centrabalance.com, are small pieces of plastic engineered in a specific shape, applied to certain locations on a truck, which basically modify the airflow, preventing much of the drag around the gap between tractor and trailer. Also, the EcoFins can be applied to reduce the drag around the wheels. When applied to rear edge of the trailers, they can reduce the drag from the slip stream created at the back of the trailer as it moves along at highway speed. For those who have to run through snow storms, that slip stream causes the buildup of snow along the rear surface of the trailer covering everything including the lighting — EcoFins virtually stop the problem so not only are they a fuel saving device, but a safety item. EcoFins are inexpensive yet improve fuel mileage considerably. The EcoFins can return your investment measured in hundreds of dollars, not thousands, in a matter of a few fill ups, regardless of the fuel source. OEMs have been producing aerodynamic vehicles for the past thirty years or more. It seems with every gain the industry makes to improve fuel economy and burn less carbon-based fuel, governments find new and better ways to negate those gains, in an effort to claim improvement. Businesses strive to produce more with less and trucking businesses are no different. They strive to do the most with the least because profit margins are already thin. Fuel economy is an area where using less makes good business sense. The use of fairings, under trailer skirts, fenders, around all tires, and those that eliminate the gap between tractor and trailer, are quite well utilized through the industry. Even tires themselves have been improved to be more efficient, improving fuel mileage, while still providing the friction necessary for proper traction and braking. But now that these issues are all being addressed, there’s one other area of improvement that will virtually stop the “dead mile” syndrome in order to increase capacity. The fact is there’s a great deal of capacity being used inefficiently. Bringing the inefficient use of equipment into efficient is another way to resolve the carbon footprint issue. There are innovators working on this issue. XYpper.com has been working for more than five years to bring order to the capacity issue and is ready to bring their solution to market. Improving the capacity by as much as 28% without buying a single new or larger trailer is the kind of thinking so needed in the trucking industry.
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