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 ...

As autonomous technology and electric truck adoption advance, brakes need to change. Autonomous vehicles and battery-electric trucks are no longer figments of engineers’ imaginations. They are poised ...

Last week, automotive content powerhouse Carwow UK dropped a brief but curiously geeky experiment on X: a braking test comparing a truck (Hennessey Mammoth 1000 TRX) and sports cars (Porsche 911 and ...

In choosing brake systems for a commercial fleet, there’s no wrong answer whether air disc brakes are a right fit versus drum brakes. There are plenty of advantages for both; drum brakes are ...

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 ...

Many of the larger vehicles on our roads have one intriguing thing in common: They can make sudden, loud, gas-escaping hissing noises. These noises, admittedly, have made this writer jump — on more ...

There are many things that can’t be hurried in this life, and probably shouldn’t be, like wine and bread (let beaujolais nouveau and matzoh be a warning to us all). There are other things that could ...