Hunter Engineering has announced its B400T brake tester meets Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations to test brake compliance without a follow-up physical inspection, ...

New enforcement regulations from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration allow Hunter's B400T Brake Tester to be used to test brake compliance without a follow-up physical inspection to take ...

The trucks used for this test were off-the-shelf Freightliner Cascadias with the company’s standard brake offerings. There was nothing special about the brakes used in the test. Due to the transfer of ...

LITE-CHECK, a provider of tools for trucking industry safety diagnosis, recently expanded its lineup with a new brake timing tester. The company said its new CERTIFIER 1200, which ensures operators ...

If you run in one of the many states that have one of the devices shown above — a performance-based brake tester (PBBT) — it’s likely you’ve seen one in operation. I’ve written about them before in ...

Using a full-scale dynamometer for the testing of friction materials for brake applications is a cost- and time-intensive method as it requires the rotor and brake pads to be in their final form ...