DOT Prepares Braking Rule

Probably on just the new trucks. When the government started requiring brakes on steering axles, there were still many thousands of older trucks without them, mine included.

 

I'd love some bigger brakes, assuming they heat up slower and cool down faster. Throw in a stronger jake too.

 

oooh can't wait til they hit the tankers!!!

 

just up the gross weight about a 1000 lbs and add another axle.. this would relieve preasure on the other tires as well as keep from tearing up the roads as bad.. one more axle would add a lot more stopping power, and require little other changes. your tires would run cooler from better weight distribution , making them last longer, which would make up for the 4 extra tires. more braking power on steep hills. notice i said ,,ONLY add 1000 lbs to adjust for the weight of the extra axle.. adding another 10,000 lbs would defeate the purpose of adding the axle for braking power..

 

That makes too much sense......Government and commonsense are like oil and water......

 

All this rules does is force the American truck market to adopt disk brakes. The current reason for not using disk brakes is weight, air disk brakes system weigh in over 350 lbs more just the tractor.

Disk brake systems have be in use and mandated in Europe for over 10 years.

Mark

 

I wanna see them road test a dairy tanker with bigger brakes loaded to max gross with heavy cream.... I can see it now.... 60mph, slam the brakes, stop in 284 ft.... then the surge smacks the rear on the tanker and it jumps backwards 20ft..... followed by the return surge which shoves the truck forward 20. I can see the whiplash claims starting already.

 

No brake slamming in tankers. It's be fun to watch the tests though. I drove an old 78 pete pulling an unbaffled water tanker on one job, that was fun. #### good running old truck too, if geared a little high. A/C would freeze you out of it.

I dunno why someone hasn't designed a heavy brake cooling system yet though. You can compress pretty much any gas and it blows out cold when you release it. So why not direct it into the brake chambers? Surely there must be a way in this day and age.