Enjoy Unparalleled Fuel Economy with TrailerBlade
As a fleet operator, you know too well that one of the most significant factors affecting your bottom line is fuel usage. With many trailers hauling heavy loads throughout the year, fuel costs can add up quite quickly. That’s why equipping your fleet with the best side skirts on the market is critical if you want to keep your expenditures as low as possible.

Here’s how TrailerBlade side skirts facilitate the optimum fuel efficiency for keeping your costs down:
Aerodynamic Drag Reduction
As you are likely aware, driving any vehicle creates drag — resistance created by air and wind the vehicle passes through — which acts as a force against the vehicle. With modern engines, this often doesn’t slow the vehicle down, but more fuel must be consumed to achieve the same speeds. When this takes place over the course of tens of thousands of miles, particularly with a large and heavy vehicle like a tractor-trailer, this added fuel consumption can become very significant.
Side skirts are one of the best technologies available for countering the effects of aerodynamic drag on trailers. Put simply, side skirts help streamline trailers to reduce this drag by channeling wind. Whereas trailers without side skirts allow wind to easily pass underneath the truck, creating additional drag, side skirts channel the wind along the sides of the truck, steering it clear of the many drag-susceptible components underneath.
TrailerBlade & Fuel Reduction Certification
Of the many side skirt options available on the market today, TrailerBlade side skirts are unique in their superior value. Not only are they the most durable side skirts available, keeping repair and replacement costs down, but they also offer some of the greatest fuel savings of all side skirt options available. It’s important to understand that the air just beneath your trailer moves differently than the air near the ground.  TrailerBlade’s split-skirt design recognizes this.  And while other makers opt for cheaper, “monolithic” designs, we continue to use the most fuel efficient design.  When tested to verify that TrailerBlade skirts met California’s strict CARB requirements for advanced side skirts, they exceeded the standard by 43%. In the rigorous EPA verified SAE J1321 Fuel Economy Test, TrailerBlade products achieved a whopping 7.15% fuel reduction — one of the most significant reductions of any fuel-saving trailer product of any kind.
Bottom Line
If you’re managing a fleet, you want to keep your costs low. And that’s exactly what TrailerBlade’s superior side skirts do. For the average tractor-trailer, TrailerBlade’s 7.15% fuel reduction (available across all side skirt models) represents nearly $4,000 in savings over 100,000 miles. And now, the new TrailerBlade Fleet brings an update to the classic model, providing the same fuel savings fleet managers love with a frame that is 30 pounds lighter — further reducing fuel consumption from trailer weight over time.

With the best value of any side skirts on the market, the choice is clear. Savvy fleet managers outfit their fleet with TrailerBlade, and so should you.

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