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Sep 7, 2007

Poor Brakes * Canada - Cost lives and money

Better compliance needed in trucking industry - inspector

Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada -The Chronicle Herald, by TOM PETERS -6 Sept 2007: -- Poor brakes on commercial trucks present both safety and financial issues, and trucking industry and government are working together to seek compliance with established safety standards... Paul Cormier, vehicle compliance training and outreach officer for the provincial Transportation Department, said Wednesday that if a truck does not meet the appropriate safety standards, it takes time and money to get that vehicle operational again... "There are a lot of indirect costs," he said... The provincial government and the trucking industry last week offered free brake inspections to truck drivers who volunteered to have their equipment checked... (Picture by atkinson.yorku: Canada - Every spring, trucks go down through the ice in places where frozen water is used as a seasonal road; this truck is sinking in Lake Winnipeg)

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Mar 28, 2007

Hazards * USA - Cheap aftermarket brake actuators flooding market could present they

Charlotte,N.C.,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -27 Mar 2007: -- ... According to Wayne Seaman of MGM Brakes in Charlotte, N.C., some aftermarket brake manufacturers -- mainly overseas exporters from Asia who think they can make a buck producing cheaper actuators -- have re-introduced the double-clamp versions to the North American market. And in the hands of an inexperience technician, these babies are dangerous, says Seaman... In 1987, MGM re-designed the actuators with only one clamp, so the spring side was inaccessible. By the early '90s, the entire industry had embraced this design. Seaman says injuries due to inexperience essentially disappeared... Now that they’re back, he says, there’s a whole generation of technicians who have no experience with the obsolete units...

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