Newton City Council this week passed the ban in a 5-1 vote with Randy Ervin voting “no.” The council member said he ...

Truckers have long appreciated the safety value of engine retarders, but the general public has always been annoyed by the noise they produce. That's the mystery faced by engine brake manufacturers ...

Brakes are among the most critical safety systems on any vehicle, yet they’re often overlooked until something goes wrong.

As cities nationwide move to ban noise from engine compression brakes, some of the more successful and common-sense efforts go to the source of the problem instead. States that pay attention to ...

HOLYOKE – Gordon P. Alexander used to hear the low-end, rumbling wail of a trucker applying engine brakes dozens of times a day. "It'll wake you up if you're asleep. It's loud," Alexander said on ...

Should Bayfield prohibit use of engine brakes, also known as Jake brakes, by semis passing through town on Highway 160? Town trustees discussed the issue on June 7. "We've had a couple people contact ...

ASHLAND, Neb. (WOWT) - Community leaders in Ashland, Nebraska say they’ve heard enough. The sound of engine braking by semis passing through has some residents making noise so the city council and ...

At Tuesday’s Salisbury City Council meeting, the council approved a revision to the city code making engine exhaust sounds that imitate gunfire and engine brakes a misdemeanor in the city.  After ...

Power is both the blessing and the curse of diesel engines, which is where retarders, more commonly known as engine brakes, come into play. Pacbrake explains that since diesel engines lack a retarding ...

National Transport Commission safety spokesperson Tim Eaton said engine braking noise on heavy vehicles fitted with worn, defective or inferior mufflers had been a community concern for some time.

With automatic vehicles making up the majority of traffic and self-driving cars gearing up to take over, learning how to drive isn't such a big deal. Nowadays, kids as young as ten years already have ...

The Hall County Board of Supervisors will continue discussion regarding a more effective engine brake ban on Tuesday. The existing ban in the city limits of Grand Island and other communities in the ...