From the June 2017 issue.
A new study found that increasing the standard length of a US twin trailer by only 1.5m could save the industry some €2.4 billion.
To find out just how the HPFV trend could help reduce commercial vehicle traffic in the US, a transport lobby group asked the ex-Virginia Tech Fellow to examine how increasing the maximum length of so-called twin trailers from 28 feet (ca. 8.5m) to 33 feet (ca. 10m) would impact the local freight market.
Knipling’s 19-page analysis of the issue, aptly titled Twin 33 Foot Truck Trailers: Making US Freight Transport Safer And More Efficient, was made available for download in March and continues to stir up the North American Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) market, where the double trailer set-up is most prevalent.