Getting to the trail head and home again should not be this nerve-wracking. If you tow with a diesel truck, you can eliminate a lot of this worry by installing a supplemental exhaust braking system.

The Jacobs compression release engine brake, or "Jake brake," is now in its 60th year of service, with more than 9 million of the systems manufactured by 2019. The compression release brake system, ...

GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP)- Tractor trailers are big and they can be loud. Several Massachusetts cities and towns have banned truck drivers from using their engine brake, or jake brake, which can be ...

Jake brakes on large commercial hauling trucks may not be music to the ears, but according to Murrysville Chief Administrator Jim Morrison, they’re “a necessary evil.” Morrison was responding to ...

Q: While driving north on Route 512 leaving Bath, I noticed signs that said “Brake Retarders Prohibited.” I used to live in Bath and have driven that stretch millions of times, never noticing them, so ...

The Department of Labor plans to expand Pell Grant eligibility to some shorter workforce training programs, a move the American Trucking Associations said will help strengthen commercial driver ...

She concedes there’s not much the state can do about it, but a state Division of Highways spokesperson believes the growing practice of regulating or prohibiting the use of so-called “Jake brakes” in ...

Relief may have finally arrived for Dillon residents upset about truck noise rolling through town at night. For more than a year now residents in the Dillon Valley have been losing sleep as a result ...