Does your home jurisdiction require air brake endorsement?
Are there jurisdictions about the continent that allow people to drive air brake equipped vehicles without any type of training or license endorsement?
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randco wrote:peaches&cream wrote:Tom_Anderson wrote:two-niner wrote:
All of this "sitting in the cab pumping the brake pedal X number of times" is good. How do you know they really adjusted??
You measure the stroke, just like always. All of this pumping stuff isn't really necessary if you measure the pushrod stroke and it's within spec.
No one has answered my question, does the pedal go lower (as in hydralic brakes) as the adjustment gets out of tolerance? Or does the pedal go to the floor upon a stop when it is out of tolerance? Since we have professionals responding to the post, I would think they would know the answer? I normaly press my brake pedal as far as it will go, every day as I drive the MH. Usually make at least 10 stops or more each day. Do I need to do a "panic stop"? Please explain what a CDL teaches you over a "peon" like me?
Give me some info?
Next question... At what speed must one be traveling to perform the proper panic stop?
You don't have to be moving at all. You just need to make a full brake application with the parking brake off. Again, you really should never need to do this. The whole point of automatic slack adjusters is that they adjust automatically. Just check the pushrod travel periodically and you'll be fine.
