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The second effect is I believe would causes the issue pulling a trailer. 
When the wind comes down behind the true when you are towing at 
gooseneck it hits a big flat wall with no place to go since the front of 
the trailer blocks it from the back, the goose neck block it from above 
and the truck tail gate blocks it from the front.

Truman

Rae Callaway wrote:
>  why it worked that way.  The tailgate down required the wind to go 
> over the cab and hit the bed and created drag.  The tailgate up 
> created a sidewise tornado effect, or wind bubble in the bed, so 
> oncoming wind continued over the cab, over the bubble and would come 
> down and hit behind the truck, so no drag at all.
>  
> Rae
> Tall C Arabians - Central


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