The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification and safety features, and growing importance of technologies ...

Truckers have long appreciated the safety value of engine retarders, but the general public has always been annoyed by the noise they produce. That's the mystery faced by engine brake manufacturers ...

TMD Friction has released a paper on the importance of auxiliary brake retarders to all braking systems in the heavy-duty market. TMD says despite operational differences between disc and drum brakes, ...

When: West Earl supervisors meeting, Sept. 11. What happened: Supervisors voted unanimously to prohibit engine brake retarders on Locust Street from West Farmersville Road to South State Street and ...

Hydraulic retarders play a critical role in modern vehicle braking systems by converting kinetic energy into thermal energy through the fluid dynamic interactions within the retarder system. Their ...

The loud roar of diesel trucks using brake retarders will continue to be heard on Route 56 between Hillcrest Drive and Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell. City officials in April had requested that ...

Delmont officials will move ahead in developing a “jake-brake” ordinance, despite acknowledging that their police department will not be able to enforce it. Borough officials asked the state ...

City Council may consider an ordinance that would allow it to prohibit the use of jake brakes, although council is likely to put the prohibition into practice for now only along 31st Street below Mill ...

Newville Borough Council is getting set to put a stop to noise from engine brake retarders on trucks and other vehicles. Council Tuesday endorsed a draft ordinance to prohibit the use of such ...

Manor Township supervisors voted 4-1 on Nov 4 to overturn a traffic commission recommendation for erecting signs limiting trucks' use of engine brake retarders. The signs would have prohibited ...