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Mack Trucks intros air disc brake option for work trucks; here’s how easy it is to change brake pads
Mack Trucks introduced an air disc brake option for it’s vocational trucks today at the World of Concrete in Las Vegas. Air brakes offer superior stopping power, better resistance to fade and less maintenance than than conventional S-cam designs. Mack’s design uses two pistons to drive the pad against the rotor, which provide more balanced […]
January 20, 2014
Safety
Trucks
Short Stops? Changes to the stopping distance regulations are here. But manufacturers say they’ll easily clear the bar. By Jack Roberts The first phase of National Highway Traffic Administration’s new stopping distance regulations for heavy trucks become law on August 1. At first glance, the stopping distance regulations seem daunting: Passenger cars in the United […]
July 2, 2011
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