Trolley break??

If you've been driving 17 years and can't figure this out, you need a career change.

When you stopped, you didn't smell hot brakes?

 

For some reason I was thinking about this today, this is what puzzles me. He said this was a NEW straight truck, NO trailer, SO WHY does he even have a Trolley Brake???????

If he has a trolley brake and applies it, it will do nothing,(except drop air pressure from the sec.) If this was an older truck that someone stretched I could see it, but there should not be a TB on a straight truck that isn't setup to pull a trailer.

Am I way off base here???

 

All the air braked straight trucks I have been in have had a trolley brake. I think they are setup like that for running a pintle trailer with air brakes. Then again most of the "straight" trucks I have been in were construction trucks or tandem dumps.

 

OK, makes sense, I guess I was thinking box truck, like expedited freight.

 

I use it when someone is tailgating me lol

 

It's the company brakes lever.

 

Yes it will overheat the trailer brakes if used to much. My 2012 prostar didn't come with one. First truck that I ever saw with out one!