Of the 38,117 inspections of commercial motor vehicles during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week, 13% were placed out of service for brake-related violations.
CVSA’s Will Schaefer and HDT’s Jim Park dig into the reasons for the fairly consistent brake out-of-service rates and how inspectors manage to uncover brake defects that seem to elude drivers and technicians.
If CVSA vehicle inspectors manage to find so many brake defects during roadside inspections, why can’t technicians and drivers find them first?
Did you know that when you’re doing an engine overhaul, you also should take the time to tune up the engine brake?
C.R. England will transition its entire fleet of 4,000 Freightliner and International trucks to Maxxus L2.0 air disc brakes from ZF by 2024.
Disc brakes are better than drum brakes by almost every measure, but for many truck fleets, drum brakes are good enough.
A truck driver who said he lost his brakes on a steep grade in Colorado has been sentenced to 110 years in prison after four people died in the resulting pileup.
During Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week inspection and enforcement initiative, 88% of commercial motor vehicles did not have critical brake-related violations.
Autonomous vehicle control systems and battery-electric trucks are poised to put new demands on commercial air brake systems and fast-track further development.
Nine ways to up your fleet's game for hydraulic, air, and exhaust brakes.
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