Comments on: Dragging brakes sacrifice more than friction material https://www.trucknews.com/features/dragging-brakes-sacrifice-more-than-friction-material/ Trucking news from the editors of Today's Trucking Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: André Perret https://www.trucknews.com/features/dragging-brakes-sacrifice-more-than-friction-material/#comment-470995 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:38:50 +0000 https://www.trucknews.com/?post_type=feature&p=1003177131#comment-470995 Quote from this article: “Once you have a dragging brake, the only way to resolve it is to either burn through the friction to the point where the drag becomes insignificant, or have a technician identify it and manually adjust the brake,” Mark Holley, Bendix director of marketing and customer solutions – wheel ends, noted in a related bulletin.”….sorry, but there is one more way, that can lead to resolving a dragging brake before it becomes an issue: Driver input!

If drivers were to perform their periodic circle-checks in more than a perfunctory way, their finger-tips would notice a hot-running brake-drum, and thus could get the brake checked by a mechanic before the end of the shift (and, probably avoid an Inspection-Station OOS defect in the process).

]]> By: Derek Johnson https://www.trucknews.com/features/dragging-brakes-sacrifice-more-than-friction-material/#comment-470787 Sat, 05 Aug 2023 17:47:58 +0000 https://www.trucknews.com/?post_type=feature&p=1003177131#comment-470787 Very interesting article on truck brakes, thank you for publishing this. We manufacture industrial brakes for various applications which are typically larger than standard vehicle brakes, but the engineering and physics is the same of course. This was a nice overview of issues we all face when designing brakes even though it is more geared towards maintenance, again, much appreciated.

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