What if you could find out in 10 minutes or less precisely how each and every one of your tractor-trailer's brakes is working? You'd know how much force they're producing to stop the rig, individually ...
The trucks used for this test were off-the-shelf Freightliner Cascadias with the company’s standard brake offerings. There was nothing special about the brakes used in the test. Due to the transfer of ...
Link Engineering's Dual-by-Wire technology for brake test dynamometers permits dual-ended brake testing with nothing but electronic connections between dynamometers. It allows two single-ended ...
Brakes are at the top of maintenance worries for every fleet, and a solid maintenance program is no guarantee that brakes will perform as needed. Consider a report on the adoption of a ...
It's a moment none of us ever want to be put in-a panic stop. With no warning, you slam on your brakes and hope for the best. For those of you driving big lifted trucks with large wheels and tires, ...
A recent test is demonstrating how railroads can show yarded trains who’s “the boss” when it comes to the status of air brakes. Brake-Boss™, a digitized air brake train tester, was recently installed ...
People's reaction to Tesla's cessation of the brake-and-roll test is more than a little overblown, and here’s why. If Tesla's struggle to produce the Model 3 in significant quantities has taught the ...
SRAM gave their popular four-piston brakes an update. We tested them for you to find out whether the new SRAM MAVENs are ...
The Aircraft, Wheels and Brakes department at British Airways has chosen a Mecmesin MultiTest 5-x force testing system to perform quality-control assessments on aircraft brake-unit springs. The ...