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Semi driver cited after Dan Ryan crash

They are also getting these less then desirable companies off of the roads, bad driver also.

They are, but they're also catching good drivers in the net, as well. The CSA point system issues points for literally everything. The most asinine part is that in the first year, the point values are tripled. I currently have 3 points, because of an accident where I wasn't at fault. There are violations that have nothing to do with safety that will earn a driver points on his CSA score.
 
That's every metropolitan area in the country.





It depends on the airline. Crimping off a break line will cause the air to that brake chamber to be cutoff, thereby locking up the brake.



Not all 18 brake assemblies. However, if the trailer brakes are out of adjustment, braking power is greatly reduced. The tractor brakes alone aren't enough to stop within the 600 feet of safe stopping distance




Brake lock up isn't necessarily a brake failure. If brakes lock up because of a loss of air pressure, then the brakes didn't fail, because they did exactly what they're supposed to do.

Most truckers I knew carried a couple of these to cage the chamber spring.

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