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April 2014

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30 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | APRIL 2014 Text INFO to 205-289-3554 or visit www.ccjdigital.com/info A TDynamics announced that, in response to President Obama's directive in February for tighter fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks, it will offer aerodynamic equipment combination packages that have been tested at the Auto Research Center wind tunnel in Indianapolis to deliver 9.6, 10.6 and 11.2 per- cent fuel savings. "The technologies exist today to immediately reduce the fuel consumption and carbon emissions of the longhaul trucking industry by over 10 percent," said Andrew Smith, chief executive officer of ATDynamics. "Our customers have already successfully deployed over 20,000 combination pack- ages of TrailerTails and side skirts on their trailers to date, ahead of regulatory require- ments." In tandem with its aerody- namic side skirt partners, AT- Dynamics has tested different side skirt configurations in combination packages with its TrailerTail at the ARC wind tunnel. The company said it also has conducted on-road SAE Type II J1321 fuel efficiency testing of TrailerTail and side skirt combination packages and has verified reduced fuel consumption by 9 to11 percent at highway speed, which aligns with the wind tunnel test results. TrailerTail technology has been incorporated into three of the U.S. Department of Energy's SuperTruck projects as a key technology to increase the freight efficiency of a semi- truck by 50 percent. ATDynamics also said that based on current industry adoption rates, trucking fleets are expected to deploy more than 200,000 TrailerTails by 2017. Key factors, according to the company, are manufacturing economies of scale driving reduced equipment costs to fleets, recently expanded Trail- erTail product options to fit both high- and lower-mileage fleet profiles and auto-deploy- ment mechanisms to ensure TrailerTails are deployed when vehicles are at highway speed. – CCJ staff ATDynamics compiles aero packages for new truck regs ATDynamics has conducted on-road SAE Type II J1321 fuel-effi- ciency testing of TrailerTail and side skirt combination packages.

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