If you haven't heard of Jake breaks, you're probably not alone. But how is this variation any different from the regular kind ...

Now, that's all well and good for your everyday family sedan, but what about a real rip-roarer of a vehicle, such as a massive diesel-powered big rig truck? Big trucks have regular brakes ...

These hulking diesel engines power the economy with massive torque, hundreds of horsepower, and hard-driving reliability.

The new effort by our county commissioners to outlaw one of truck drivers’ safety tools is a poke in the eye at our agriculture community and the trucking industry. Jake Brakes are an essential ...

California air regulators on Friday approved first-in-the-nation rules to ban the sale of new diesel big rig trucks statewide by 2036, the latest step in the slow but steady phase-out of fossil ...

New big rigs and other trucks will have to be zero-emissions in 2040 — ending their decades-long reliance on high-polluting diesel — under a proposed regulation unveiled by the California Air ...

As diesel trucks idle in line at a Port of Long Beach terminal, a big-rig electric truck pulls into a lot beneath one of the port’s towering bridges. The lot will be the site of one of the ...