The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification and safety features, and growing importance of technologies ...

TMD Friction has released a paper on the importance of auxiliary brake retarders to all braking systems in the heavy-duty market. TMD says despite operational differences between disc and drum brakes, ...

Hydraulic retarders play a critical role in modern vehicle braking systems by converting kinetic energy into thermal energy through the fluid dynamic interactions within the retarder system. Their ...

We've all heard it. That teeth-chattering, machine-gun exhaust sound diesel truckers make when they use engine retarders to slow their vehicles. Ray Yecker was at the June 11 meeting of the West Earl ...

West Earl Township resident Phil Boyer said he wakes up almost every morning at 4 a.m. to a vibrating house and the sound of screeching brakes. Boyer said the ruckus is the result of trucks barreling ...

SOUDERTON >> Picking up on neighboring Telford’s discussion earlier in the month of possibly banning trucks from using brake retarders, Souderton Borough police Chief James Leary raised the same ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Caterpillar heavy-duty compression brake will be introduced as an option on the C15 during fall of this year. Caterpillar officials made the announcement at the Mid-America ...

MAHANOY PLANE – The use of engine brake retarders by large diesel trucks to provide additional braking power will not be prohibited in Gilberton borough. The consensus of the Gilberton Borough Council ...