Two big rigs wrecked within an hour of each other while hauling flood debris to a private landfill in Canton last Friday — further fueling complaints that the narrow, curvy road can't accommodate the ...

The Jacobs Engine Brake or Jake Brake for short, alters a semi-truck's valve timing so that the engine helps slow it down and reduces the forces placed on the truck's standard brakes. A modern ...

The Jake Brake, short for Jacobs Engine Brake, absorbs energy instead of producing it. In other words, the system alters the engine's exhaust valve operation so that the pistons act as air ...

Instead, it’s the engine-compression brakes that some truckers deploy to slow their rigs down when entering the city. “We expected normal noise, not this level of Jake braking,” he said.

What’s more, their quiet operation means that residents like young kids and light sleepers are far less likely to be woken up at 0-dark-thirty by a rogue operator with a Jake Brake fetish.

The other technology is called a Jake Brake. Contrary to popular belief, the jake brake has nothing to do with Jake from State Farm. The jake brake is a valve timing technology used by diesel ...

But, while Rattler is deserving of the praise and arguably the fair frontrunner in the competition for QB2 with Jake Haener ... “We had zero issues with operation, operations went super smooth ...

Jake brakes cause the air that flows into the cylinders of diesel engines to exit through the exhaust valves without powering the pistons, according to wewin.com. The operation of the ...

WEIRTON, W.Va. — Residents along Beverly Avenue off Freedom way in Weirton say they have been facing a loud issue -- trucks using Jake brakes. Joe Smith has lived in the same house for decades ...

The operation ultimately rescued some hundred ... “It’s never been, at all, Jake is a brake on this—it’s Jake doing the job the way it’s supposed to be done.” The former official ...

An engine brake is also known as a “Jake brake,” after manufacturer Jacobs Vehicle Systems. The legislation defines a Jake brake as a device that “mounts on a motor vehicle engine ...

“If somebody wants to exceed that and still use their jake brakes, they could be liable for fines. And in the trucking industry, word gets around pretty quick,” Martel said. Southam ...