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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06Fargo wrote:Tom_Anderson wrote:06Fargo wrote:
Well this turned into a lengthy discussion mostly off the original question...
Lots of poking fun at people who think a driver should understand the operation of the brakes on a heavy vehicle... :h
I find it just as :h that nobody seems to think it's important that anybody understand the operation of hydraulic brakes on a heavy vehicle. I mean, the end result of air brake failure and hydraulic brake failure are both potentially life-threatening. At least with air brakes, the spring brakes may stop you when you lose air pressure, but hydraulic brakes won't even do that if you lose or boil your fluid.
I said "the" brakes... as in all the brakes, whatever type they are.... on a heavy vehicle...
Sorry. Even though I quoted your post, that wasn't directed at you. It was just related to what you said.
For the record, I have not said anywhere in this thread that drivers should not be familiar with their braking systems. I said that I find it odd that nobody seems to care unless the coach is equipped with air brakes, as though nothing can go wrong with hydraulic brakes or a gas-powered coach with brake failure can't hurt anybody.
This thread may have started out as a sharing of information, but it has degenerated into a poo slinging fest. I'm unsubscribing and won't be back.
