California Highway Patrol in the Gold Run area says it's placing a greater emphasis on big rig brake checks after a series of fires along Interstate 80 that threatened more than the commute. A brake ...

Out of service brake violations dropped slightly this year during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's annual, unannounced brake check day. On May 6, CVSA-certified inspectors in 32 participating ...

If there’s one thing on commercial vehicles that operations and maintenance professionals need to understand, it’s braking systems. Not getting a truck to start rolling on time will cause delayed ...

The incident occurred on May 9, 2018 on I-294 in Chicago. The brake check caused a complete stop on the interstate and a 15-car pile-up with injuries. Brake checking takes road rage to a new and more ...

YouTube channel Teslacam Supercharged points out that this crazy road rager must have a death wish. Brake-checking is never a good idea, and doing it to a large semi-truck at high speeds is a recipe ...

GARDEN CITY, Utah (KUTV) — Just ahead of the busy summer season at Bear Lake, Garden City Mayor Mike Leonhardt announced a new brake check area is in the works to prevent runaway semi crashes.

MOUNT ENTERPRISE — Some towns pair their city limits signs with others acknowledging the local Kiwanis Club, a brag about a native celebrity or a proclamation that it's the fill-in-the-blank capital ...

HOLYOKE – Gordon P. Alexander used to hear the low-end, rumbling wail of a trucker applying engine brakes dozens of times a day. "It'll wake you up if you're asleep. It's loud," Alexander said on ...

When that god awful moment of truth arrives, when both feet are mashed firmly to the brake pedal and you feel like if it would make a difference you would gladly push hard enough to go through the ...