Ford is recalling roughly 15,000 Transit vehicles due to a loss of brake function.

With the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's Brake Safety Week 2024 under way through this coming Saturday, listen back to the 2021 Overdrive Radio podcast talk with Pennsylvania-based former ...

BrakeSentry’s visual brake stroke indicators are designed to seal air-brake chambers and clearly indicate to drivers the length of brake-pushrod stroke. According to the company, the simple, versatile ...

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 ...

Despite what you may think, the 2-inch stroke limit on a standard Type-30 brake chamber isn’t arbitrary. With a Type-30 chamber, 0.66 inches of pushrod travel is used to move the brake lining from its ...

When the brakes are applied, circuits send compressed air from the storage tanks to front and rear service chambers that push the brake shoes into the brake drums, thus slowing down the vehicle. Semis ...