A Toytown resident this week lambasted City Council for recently rescinding a three-year-old prohibition on truckers using jake brakes on 31st Street below Mill Run in his neighborhood. Mike Servello ...

What Is Engine Braking? What Is A Jake Brake? How does engine braking work? How do you engine brake with a manual transmission? How does a jake brake work? How do diesel cars engine brake? This video ...

WEIRTON, W.Va. — Residents along Beverly Avenue off Freedom way in Weirton say they have been facing a loud issue -- trucks using Jake brakes. Joe Smith has lived in the same house for decades and ...

U.S. Route 11 through the center of Malone village is quite hilly, and with several thousand large trucks passing through the village daily, significant noise is generated by these vehicles, both when ...

With automatic vehicles making up the majority of traffic and self-driving cars gearing up to take over, learning how to drive isn't such a big deal. Nowadays, kids as young as ten years already have ...

The RCIPS has issued a traffic advisory to remind truck drivers that it is illegal to use unmuffled engine compression brakes (also known as Jake Brakes) other than for emergency purposes.

Kudos to Manheim Township for submitting a request to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to restrict the use of brake retarders, also known as “jake brakes,” within the municipality. This ...

A Toytown man who has publicly complained about trucks using jake brakes in his neighborhood has been charged with attempted homicide after allegedly firing a bullet into the windshield of a truck ...

The loud roar of diesel trucks using brake retarders will continue to be heard on Route 56 between Hillcrest Drive and Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell. City officials in April had requested that ...

A new approach to jake brakes may be in the works. The city's transportation and traffic commission voted 4-2 in favor of recommending the City Council adopt a bill requiring engine brake mufflers in ...