Many of the larger vehicles on our roads have one intriguing thing in common: They can make sudden, loud, gas-escaping ...

Typical, medium-duty, hydraulic brake system with front discs (red circuit) and rear drums (green circuit). Boost, or assist (blue circuit), is provided by an engine-driven pump, although the power ...

One reason that today's vehicles are the safest in history is that, since 1968, all vehicles come equipped with dual brake systems to ensure that if one set of brakes fails, the other set can still ...

The editors of Commercial Carrier Journal have completed the 7th edition of The Air Brake Book. The book, first published in 1988, serves as a complete, up-to-date reference on heavy vehicle air brake ...

Imagine having a brand new truck sidelined during a roadside inspection because the inspector didn't understand what he was looking at . That happened more than once as the first of the ...

Dana Corp's Commercial Vehicle Systems Division has a new Dana Spicer Brake Application Guidelines Manual to use in determining Dana Spicer brake applications Dana Corp's Commercial Vehicle Systems ...

Fleetwood Resource Management (FRM) introduced its Air Brake Cooling(ABC) System, a fade-resistant system which, according to the company, “virtually eliminates” one of the biggest problems facing ...

Tesla pushed out a software update to Model 3s that dramatically improved the car's braking performance in certain conditions. The update came days after Consumer Reports announced that it could not ...