On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:32:12 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , wrote:

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:45:21 -0400
wrote:
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:01:19 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
Profile matters more than frontal area and the barn door styling of the
average euro truck doesn't exactly lend itself to a good drag coefficient
unlike the swept back design of most cars and thats before you move onto
the huge rolling resistance of trucks.
And American trucks "generally" have much better aerodynamics than
Euto trucks which tend to be slab-fronted COE and Forward Conrol
rigs.

And euro trucks are a lot less safe in a head on collision with another truck
or the scenery. There's only so much you can do when the "crumple zone" is
some sheet metal and the dashboard instead of 6 foot of bonnet + engine.

Yankee trucks waste so much space on the road.
If the length provides an advantage it doesn't "wate" space - it just
"occupies" space - and a vert small fraction of the total road.