the unnecessary usage of j-brakes, why????

It's funny how 4 wheeler drivers have the nerve to complain about 18 wheelers being noisy, by using engine brakes. But, it's ok for them to cut us off, or pull out in front of us and make us slow down and loose our momentum and have to take 1/2 a mile to build up speed again. Nobody has respect on the road for big trucks even some other big trucks. I had a Pam Driver that wouldn't make room for me when I was trying to enter the Interstate, I tried calling him on his CB but of course he was too busy listening to music to answer me.

 

I keep hearing all this talk about noise. I don't know if yall have noticed, but these modern fleet trucks don't even sound like real trucks anymore.
The Volvo I drive is barely noticeably louder with the engine brake on than what it normally is.
I was driving a FL for a while with a Mercedes engine that sounded like a giant vacuum cleaner.
The exhaust just makes this weird hissing/sucking sound.
Before somebody jumps in telling me about real trucks with 6, 7, or 8 inch straight pipes etc. I know all about that because I have owned them and was always considerate not to rattle the windows going through small towns.
But for the majority of the average fleet trucks on the road, I don't see what the big deal is.

 

The laws were probably made because of the trucks with straight pipe. Mine's not as quiet as a fleet truck but not as loud as a Harley. I've never been hassled about it.

 

Not trying to be a jerk because I know exactly what your point is Mustang, But the mercedes and a few others are quiet because they use an exhaust brake not an engine brake they are different, and in my opinion the exhaust brake doesnt do crap, at least not compared to jakes

 

Yes Proffessional as compared to an amature and whats all that hog wash your talking about gots nothing to do with jakes. get a life go hard or go home

 

Just like with athletes and prostitutes.
Once you accept money, that makes you a pro.

 

Oh sure, I understand, but thanks in part to EPA requirements, trucks are getting wussed out. The new Cummins powered Volvos we have, have the regeneration exhaust system with with a ton of extra hardware bolted under the truck.
Sounds like an overgrown Hoover. Having come up in a different era, it is depressing to me.

As far as noise in general, the interstate system is undergoing what the airports have gone through.
Initially built in rural area, noise was never much of an issue.
But businesses and homes began sprouting up near the airports and complaining about the noise, even though they knew the airport was already there when they built.
Just like whenever a bypass is built around a town for travelling convenience, the first thing that happens is businesses move out to the new highway, turning the city into a ghost town.And of course, housing developers are right behind them.
In my county, this strech of I-20 was completed in the late sixties and has just seen a spurt of residential growth in the last fifteen years.
Now the taxpayers have spent untold millions of dollars to erect huge sound deadening walls along a several mile stretch of what was once woods and farmland when the highway was planned.
No anti-engine brake ordinance on the long hill yet, but I forsee it.

 

I hate it when they put up thows walls, I liked looking into peoples yard's.

 

My new tractor (Dura Star? Work Star? it's the International Day cab) has a really bad motor because it's been thrashed by so many drivers. So it pretty much as loud with the jakes off as it is with the jakes on.

Why do we drivers use jakes? TO SLOW DOWN FOOL!

Look at it this way, if you cut a truck off in traffic, you can either hear the jakes popping off, or the grill comming though your rear window.

 

Maybe they prefer the sound of glass breaking, metal being twisted and screeching tires over the sound of jakes being applied.......