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Automatic slack adjusters called ‘automatic’ for a reason
Manually adjusting automatic slack adjusters can lead to additional brake system problems as well as safety-related issues, such as crashes. Get the skinny on drum brake-maintenance issues ahead of Roadcheck May 4-6 here.
October 13, 2020
Regulations
Latest updates for a longtime brakes-maintenance resource: The Air Brake Book
Check out the latest updates to The Air Brake Book, including new air disc brake market penetration information and new brake technology. Details here.
August 21, 2020
Equipment
How to keep automatic slack adjusters in their groove
Are you ready for Brake Safety Week? With the nationwide inspection event — August 23-29 — kicking off in a week, a series of brake-maintenance-related stories to assist in your preps for the event. Here, a refresh on automatic slack adjuster maintenance.
August 17, 2020
Maintenance
Updated: Maintenance know-how to help stay ahead of inspectors
From tires and brakes to air and emissions systems, we've compiled this comprehensive collection of truck maintenance coverage in Overdrive to help keep your rig passing inspections and hauling strong.
February 14, 2020
Channel 19
Where Brake Safety Week, starting Sunday, is something of a year-round affair
Keeping up with your braking systems might be the most important thing you can do when it comes to avoiding the principal violations inspectors are looking for year-round, nationally, and particularly in the states shown here. Window also, here, on brake-related resources available via Overdrive and elsewhere.
September 12, 2019
Business
Be prepared for next week’s nationwide Brake Safety Week inspection spree
If the results of June’s 72-hour International Roadcheck inspection blitz are any indication, Brake Safety Week may not be a pleasant experience for a number of drivers. Braking systems were the top OOS violation, accounting for more than a quarter of OOS violations with 4,578, or 28% of the total.
September 10, 2019
Equipment
Keeping brake adjusters in their groove
Automatic brake adjusters don’t need a lot of attention, but they certainly don’t fall in the set-it-and-forget-it category. Periodic inspection and lubrication are critical to optimal performance.
August 30, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs
Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederhold’s quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.
May 13, 2019
Business
Nearly 5,000 trucks sidelined during annual brakes-focused inspection spree
According to CVSA, inspectors across the U.S. and Canada inspected 35,080 commercial vehicles during the blitz and placed 4,955 (14.1 percent) out of service for brakes violations during September’s Brake Safety Week.
November 6, 2018
Business
Tennessee shows some truck-friendly colors
Electronic logging devices and hours of service might have something to do with truck drivers brushing up their inspection skills. More on Overdrive Online.
September 17, 2018
Business
Nearly 1,600 trucks sidelined during unannounced Brake Safety Day
According to CVSA, a total of 11,531 roadside inspections were conducted on Brake Safety Day, and 1,595 commercial vehicles, or 13.8 percent of those inspected, were placed out-of-service.
July 17, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Down-to-earth lessons from an ‘out of truck experience’
CVSA's air-brake-focused inspection events have found 13-15 percent of vehicles’ brakes out of compliance, but the Zelten's were excited for the opportunity.
June 15, 2018
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