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Originally Posted by Buttons
It's a little nerve-wracking to start with, what I tend to do now is find a French or Polish (Racist, me?) truck on their own, preferably nice and tall and hang about 15 metres back.
The air tunnel effect can strech up to 100 metres behind a truck for a car, it's only really other trucks that need to be so close. There also seems to be a sweet spot about 50 metres behind a large truck, you'll notice on a dusty road or when there is litter etc that a certain distance behind the truck are little whirlwinds of dust and rubbish moving with the truck but not really being affected by 60mph of wind. That is where you want to be!
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I agree with that, it is the next one coming up and sitting on your bumper that scares me!!
I tried it when towing a caravan (anything to try and eek up the economy), but bottled it when the next one sits glued to my rear end.
Also when you get a lorry with an amended differential that comes past you it didn't half rock the rig.