It’s imperative to have a trailer brake controller when towing a trailer that has electric or electric over hydraulic brakes. In most states, an adjustable trailer brake controller is required when ...

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There are two things to know if you’re going to tow a trailer: Towing is never a trivial matter, and you can never have too much brakes. If you can't pull a trailer over a hill because you don’t have ...

Equipment trailer brake mis-adjustments and failures can dramatically increase stopping distances, resulting in increased chance of collisions or loss of control. Properly maintaining your trailer ...

If you are towing a trailer weighing more than 1,650 pounds (750kg), it is likely a braked trailer. These heavier trailers, often with two or more axles, have their own electric brakes, which are ...

Your car's brakes are designed to stop your car, not the extra couple thousand pounds you've hitched to the back. When your trailer doesn't have its own braking system, all that extra momentum, or ...

General Motors is developing a trailer braking concept to reduce stopping distance. The concept is based on the automaker's eBoost brakes used in the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and Silverado ...

Bill Snider still thinks about John Muir a lot. For most folks, if that name rings a bell, it’s probably ‘You mean the famous naturalist who helped establish Yosemite National Park and other ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Adoption of air disc brakes for trailers is slowly trending upward as some fleets look beyond the tractor to improve stopping power and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William covers motorbikes, E-bikes, cars, trucks and mobility tech. If there’s an Achilles Heel to towing a heavy trailer with a ...

Tractor and trailer braking performance was in the spotlight again last week (15 November). Machinery industry body Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA), representing manufacturers and the dealer ...