LAKE STEVENS — Before long, people who live along Highway 9 and Highway 92 in Lake Stevens could notice a difference in the noise level. Spurred by complaints, the City Council voted unanimously ...

Woodbury County's ordinance lays out portions of roads in the county where large trucks can't apply a loud compression brake. Woodbury County supervisors on Tuesday approved an ordinance to ensure ...

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, ...

As electrification creeps into the commercial vehicle sector, more fleets will be able to unlock the power of regenerative braking, which, when active, uses the onboard electric motors to slow down ...

Although I try very hard to develop new topics for these articles, there are some that I feel compelled to revisit from time to time. As haulers in our community continue in the work of transporting ...

WATERLOO — The county has started the process of revising a noise ordinance that disallows loud compression braking, or “Jake braking,” by eliminating a decibel requirement that a deputy said is ...

Diesels are great engines for tow vehicles. They twist out enough torque to get any load moving without the bad fuel-gulping habits of a big-block engine. But when you ask them for some compression ...

VEB+ - the new generation of auxiliary brakes for Volvo’s trucks - is now being launched in the UK from this autumn on all Volvo FH and Volvo FM vehicles. Already available on the new FH16, this ...