Does your home jurisdiction require air brake endorsement?

06Fargo wrote:
Hey peaches&cream - - no need to ruff people up over this - by the way legislators' names not required here - we are so simple minded here we require an air brake endorsement to legally operate any air brake machine on a public road, MH, bus, truck, farm tractor (my neighbor has one), wheel loader, log skidder, rubber tired locomotive - you name it if it has air brakes you have the endorsement or stay off the public road. No complicated weight and type and ABC formula. Hasn't hurt MH sales to my limited knowledge. You are also free here to buy your own road and drive 'em all you like, without any license even.

I was not understanding why people were posting basic air brake system questions about vehicles they already drive and/or own. That's all...
now I understand ... it is because they don't know, and weren't "required" to know before getting behind the wheel.

Now, to your general question: "Is this what you want."

Scenario:

9 percent grade, 7 miles to go. 40ft DP coach bearing down on me from behind, towing tandem 24ft double deck toy trailer, with two cars one for his one for his one for hers, pan to the luxury driving station and co-pilot accommodation,

He: "Dang-it Honey, call that salesman on the satellite phone I'm pumping my brakes and this sumb&#ch don't wanna slow down. He said the engine has brakes! All he could talk about was engine brakes and what was that other dumb name? Oh ya "slack adjusters" - who ever heard of "slack adjusters" ... Now that noisy alarm is gonna wake up Foofoo. He is gonna here about this!"

She: "Honey? Can we make that curve at 80 mph? Maybe we should google rv.net..."

Stay tuned... in our next episode: Will the spring brakes be enough? Will the Terrible Cummins engine hold together at 4000rpm? Will their china tires hold? Will Foofoo sleep through that noisy alarm?

I'm just having fun. :) No way the above could happen. No way slack adjusters can be adjusted backwards by accident... no way...

Are you saying this scenario couldn't happen with hydraulic brakes? People keep bringing up slack adjusters, but nobody should be adjusting their automatic slack adjusters, anyway. And if a slack adjuster fails, how is that different from a hydraulic brake self-adjuster failing (talking drums here)?

I'm not saying nobody should know how their air brake system works. I'm just wondering why "ignorance is bliss" seems to be the attitude with hydraulic brakes.