According to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), brake problems still account for about half of all safety defects, resulting in heavy vehicles being put out of service (OOS) at roadside ...

A new comprehensive performance-based brake testing system designed to reduce brake wear, maintenance costs, road accidents and improve road safety for heavy-duty trucks, has just recently been ...

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 ...

The Georgia Department of Public Safety recently required a performance-based brake tester for field inspections of heavy-duty tractor-trailers. A PBBT is a device that assesses the braking capability ...