Walmarts new concept tractor trailer

Looks really wierd!

Maybe this will work.
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/walmarts-wave-concept-truck-fuel-efficient-future-semis-163539377.html;

They are already using fuel saving trucks for cubes of freight moved in Canada.

If we as the general public in America could get away from gota have it today or overnight we could realize mega fuel savings over what we use with todays technology.

I expected to see a streamlined version of a shipping container.

Seen the idea in several variations over the years. Kinda kills the drop and hook concept...

Above comment applies to john in la's photo.

Unfortunately we're headed the other way with Amazon talking about predicative shipping and drone delivery. They actually want to use data like how many time you've looked at things on their site, your order history and how long you hover over the order button to predict if you will eventually buy something and just ship it to you before you click order!

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/17/amazon-wants-to-ship-your-package-before-you-buy-it/

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/02/tech/innovation/amazon-drones-questions/

How long is that monstrosity?

Dean

Here's a link to your article/video Rollie. Link

Weird truck, but kinda cool!

Well, one things for sure. Have you ever seen a trailer too tall get shreaded or wedged by an overpass and get stopped dead in its tracks? Now the driver is going to going to be able to let the trailer know what its in for, first hand, before it happens.

Mark

I figured the truck would be some chinese crap, to haul all of their chinese crap.

Where's the engine? In the sleeper?

Number 2 thing I'm going to do when I win the lottery- buy up a bunch of pre-emission Detroit-powered Century class Freightliners and 379 Pete's.

T in NE:

"Where's the engine?"

It's probably powered by an electric motor coupled to the front drive axle with the second axle powering a road-driven Generator, & the whole undercarriage of the trailer being a huge bank of Batteries.

LOL !

"amazon-wants-to-ship-your-package-before-you-buy-it"

This could get interesting.

If they ship me something that I DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY ORDER - - - then it's a FREEBIE, and I don't have to pay for it!

LOL !

Imagine the sun shining in that windshield! Awful small mirrors!

Do you remember the CAB UNDER semi's from back in the early seventy's . I saw a few up on the Buckeye green stamp back then.The driver sat way down under the trailer or almost. also back in the day when a double breasted Yamaha would get if you were lucky 4.9 mile to a gallon and use a gallon of oil a day weather you ran it or not . Then along comes the Cummins with turbo charger and after cooler and ya could get 5.5 or a shade better MPG and only use a gallon of oil between oil changes . Now today we are seeing 6.5-8.5 MPG and no oil used between changes. And no more Dragon and fly trucks . Where you now can drag a BIG load up a mountain above 55 MPH when before it was 10-20 MPH. Also the move from cab overs to Conventional . Even back in the late seventy's seeing cab overs pulling freight boxes west bound into a strong east wind barley able to make fifty MPH flat on the floor . Now they want to go back to the cab over ?? One thing about a cab over if you are ever in a wreck your the first one there and the last to leave. Yea i have driven cab overs and never liked them . Pull a Bucket local with a cab over with out in cab controls and by the end of the day ya feel like Tarzan from swing from the vines . and on a winter day jumping down out of the cab can be detrimental on your health when your feet hit the frozen patch of ice and your feet go way higher then your head .and you land on your head.

Forget building million dollar trucks. If you want to increase effiency, simply follow Michigan and Canada's lead and allow more weight. If trucks were allowed to weigh even 120,000lbs, that's well over a 50% increase. B-trains are even better. Do all that and then increase aero-dynamics.

is that driver really small, or is that cab the
size of my living room?

FWIW:
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How will the ride be with the driver almost above the front axle?