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, ...

Bendix is making available information pertaining to its voluntary recall of some 200,000 of its SR-5 trailer spring brake valves. That May 17 action has prompted recalls of over 30,000 trailers by 11 ...

As much as I enjoy driving tractor-trailers, one thing that has irked me for many years is the parking brake valves on the dashboard. The two push-pull valves -- the yellow one for tractor brakes and ...

Just a few months after the first official deliveries of the long-awaited Tesla Semi to PepsiCo and Frito-Lay in December, the truck has been hit with its first recall. The electronic parking brake ...

The Tesla Semi has been hit with its first recall four months after the start of deliveries. Tesla is recalling certain 2023 Semi trucks over an electronic parking brake valve module (PVM) that may ...

The risk you take in buying any brand new vehicle is that it's so new that there are gremlins that don't appear until after its wheels hit the road. Such is the case with the 2023 Tesla Semi, Tesla's ...

Tesla has recalled nearly three dozen Semi trucks. The recall concerns an electronic parking brake valve module that "may fail to move into the park position when the parking brake is activated," a ...

Kalmar Solutions, LLC (Kalmar) is recalling certain 2015-2022 Ottawa T2 terminal tractors. The trailer handbrake valve and the trailer parking brake valve vent lines are plumbed together. This can ...

The Tesla Semi was starting to look like the automaker’s other fabled new vehicles, the Cybertruck and Roadster, in that it seemingly would never become a reality. Tesla proved the naysayers wrong ...