FIRST CLASS l 11
Targeting
10
MPG
Peterbilt's EPIQ package, a combination of specifications and pur-
pose-built features designed to maximize fuel economy, may be new
to customers, but it's been years in the making.
In fact, many of the concepts employed by the EPIQ package were
developed when Peterbilt engineers first started working, in 2010, on
the SuperTruck program, a four-year-long Department of Energy initia-
tive designed to improve long-haul freight efficiency.
The key to success, according to Peterbilt engineers, was a matter
of perspective. SuperTruck allowed them to look at fuel economy as
if it were almost the only performance feature that mattered.
"SuperTruck gave us the opportunity to try a lot of ideas
we hadn't allowed ourselves to consider before, for vari-
ous operational or production reasons," says Jeff Smith,
an engineer with the Peterbilt Aerodynamic Analysis
Engineering Group. "Those ideas really became the origin
of the EPIQ package."
10
Targeting
MPG
FIRST CLASS l 11
EPIQ package grew from the
SuperTruck program
EPIQ
