It’s imperative to have a trailer brake controller when towing a trailer that has electric or electric over hydraulic brakes. In most states, an adjustable trailer brake controller is required when ...

Carlisle Industrial Brake & Friction has debuted a family of trailer brake controllers that delivers a new level of stopping power and control to the Carlisle Industrial Brake & Friction has debuted a ...

Equipment trailer brake mis-adjustments and failures can dramatically increase stopping distances, resulting in increased chance of collisions or loss of control. Properly maintaining your trailer ...

MUNICH, Germany — Automotive tier one Wabco Holdings Inc. has introduced two technologies aiming at enhancing the performance of electronic braking systems (EBS) on extra-long trailers and ...

It takes a robust braking system to bring 80,000 lb. (36,000 kg) of moving tractor-trailer to a halt. And half of that system sits on a trailer, about 45 feet (about 13.5 meters) behind the driver.

Hendrickson Trailer Commercial Vehicle Systems launched a new line of trailer air disc brakes designed specifically for the North American market. According the Perry Bahr, vice president and general ...

Having your trailer’s brakes fail or just having someone panic-stop short in front of you can be a dangerous situation. Now add a 6-percent down-grade to the equation and you better hope you’ve got ...

TORONTO, Ont. – The Maintenance Council of the Ontario Trucking Association has sounded the alarm over a potentially deadly flaw in the Canadian Motor Vehicle Standard governing the operation of ...

More than 450,000 vehicles are being pulled into a sweeping safety recall after federal regulators identified a potentially dangerous defect in their trailer tow systems. The issue centers on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ford is issuing two recalls covering over ...