View post: Would You Be At Fault for Rear-Ending a Car in the Rain If Its Lights Were Off? I Ask A Lawyer. It’s a familiar ritual for pickup truck makers to swap ownership of maximum tow ratings every ...

An expert panel focused real-world needs, and discussed how fleets can use practical data to improve safety and trailer ...

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It’s imperative to have a trailer brake controller when towing a trailer that has electric or electric over hydraulic brakes. In most states, an adjustable trailer brake controller is required when ...

Your car's brakes are designed to stop your car, not the extra couple thousand pounds you've hitched to the back. When your trailer doesn't have its own braking system, all that extra momentum, or ...

TORONTO, Ont. – The Maintenance Council of the Ontario Trucking Association has sounded the alarm over a potentially deadly flaw in the Canadian Motor Vehicle Standard governing the operation of ...

It takes a robust braking system to bring 80,000 lb. (36,000 kg) of moving tractor-trailer to a halt. And half of that system sits on a trailer, about 45 feet (about 13.5 meters) behind the driver.

GM recently announced a new concept to help pickup trucks pulling trailers stop in much shorter distances. This new idea uses a modified version of GM's electro-hydraulic eBoost braking system found ...

It’s impossible to fix something without understanding how it’s supposed to work. Brake system repair decisions can be difficult to make, and costly to execute, without a basic understanding of system ...

The following was published in CCJ's Air Brake Book, 11th edition, sponsored by SilverbackHD. CCJ's Air Brake Book is a complementary industry resource, courtesy of our partnership with SilverbackHD, ...