Patent ID: 7942468

Claim:
An aerodynamic skirt adapted to be substantially longitudinally mounted to a trailer, the aerodynamic skirt comprising: a skirt panel including a front portion and a rear portion, the front portion being adapted to be mounted toward a forward portion of the trailer and the rear portion being adapted to be mounted toward a rear portion of the trailer in an aerodynamic configuration, the skirt panel being adapted to move away from the aerodynamic configuration when contacting a foreign object and to self-recover the aerodynamic configuration thereafter, the skirt panel being resiliently secured to the trailer with a plurality of resilient struts including an intermediate portion; a trailer connecting portion at a first end thereof; and a skirt connecting portion at a second end thereof, the intermediate portion being adapted to sustain an elastic deformation allowing the intermediate portion to bend without breaking when the skirt panel moves away from the aerodynamic configuration and to self-recover the original shape when returning to the aerodynamic configuration, the trailer connecting portion being configured to be secured to the trailer with a securing mechanism.