The key to increasing the service life of a truck’s spring brake chamber system is to know what to look for, and how to spot safety problems easily during a daily pre-trip inspection. Often overlooked ...

Failing air chambers provide little warning of the trouble looming within. Their demise is usually sudden, accompanied by the agonizing sound of escaping air as the parts exhale for the last time.

On the fifth of September, truck inspectors from San Diego to St. John’s conducted Operation Air Brake, a well-publicized brake-inspection blitz that again had the enforcement community voicing ...