After recently completing the installation of a new rear suspension under our 1936 Phaeton it was time to complete that installation with a working emergency brake. Our first order of business was to ...

Brake problems don’t start at the roadside—they start in the yard with poor maintenance. One of the most overlooked pieces of a truck’s braking system is the slack adjuster. Many small fleets and ...

An electronic parking brake is easier to use and harder to forget to apply than a manual parking brake. It also simplifies ...

The experts at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC recognize that proper brake stroke adjustment and maintenance are critical to commercial vehicle and roadway safety. As part of its newly released ...

The panic trickled from my eyeballs to my toes when I answered my dad’s phone call at 1 a.m. on that Saturday night. I was one beer deep into my roommate’s 21st birthday celebration at a bar in Mizzou ...

While the parking brake is often associated with steep hills, the truth is that you should be using it daily on flat surfaces too. Doing so can take pressure off the transmission and other drive ...

Out-of-adjustment brakes and other brake system violations make up almost half of the out-of-service roadside inspection violations on commercial vehicles. The first part of making sure that a vehicle ...