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 ...

Power and 0–60 times are exciting, but braking is necessary. Here at MotorTrend, we love a fast car just as much as anyone else. What blasts from 0 to 60 mph quickest? It’s excellent stuff. But ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Tesla raced to meet a self-imposed and closely watched deadline for production of its Model 3 electric sedan, the Palo Alto firm stopped putting the cars through a standard auto-industry braking ...

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 ...