Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves. Manual slack adjusters require consistent adjustment, while automatics should rarely be touched.

TORONTO, Ont. – A surprise brake blitz by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) in May has led inspectors to believe there’s a big problem with drivers manually adjusting self-adjusting slack ...

Proper brake stroke adjustment and maintenance are critical to commercial vehicle and roadway safety. As part of the Bendix Tech Tips series, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC reminds vehicle ...

While automatic brake adjusters don’t need a lot of attention, they are far from “set it and forget it.” Like their manual counterparts, periodic inspection and lubrication are critical to optimal ...

ArvinMeritor calls its automatic slack adjusters the lightest weight on the market. The adjuster has a pressed-in and sealed actuator boot for maximum durability, threaded grease fittings for easy ...

WASHINGTON — It took a spectacular fatality for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to recognize the dangers in performing too-frequent adjustments to automatic brake adjusters (ABA). In ...

The National Transportation Safety Board recommendations to brake equipment suppliers have long emphasized caution about manual adjustments for pushrod stroke when automatic slack adjusters [ASAs] are ...

When calculated by the minute, the rates that some mobile service people charge to adjust truck brakes would make many celebrity attorneys blush. Surprisingly, though, the fees – ranging from $75 to ...

The automated slack adjuster assembly cell at Accuride's Rockford, Ill., facility has significantly improved quality processes and metrics for the company's Gunite (R) standard and Gunite (R) 2000 ASA ...

The Bendix Versajust GS Slack Adjuster is designed for vehicles requiring grounded automatic slack adjusters, because the brake envelope cannot accommodate slacks that use the more common link-style ...

Webb Wheel Products, a Marmon Highway Technologies/Berkshire Hathaway company, is expanding its product portfolio to include a complete line of clearance sensing automatic brake adjusters, the company ...