Disc brakes: Ya gotta love ’em. Here’s a general primer on how to assess and change your pads. So you can love ‘em even more.

The pads are mounted in brake’s calipers that have an inspection hole on top that lets you check the thickness of the pads on both sides of the disc, also called the rotor. On some vehicles that have ...

Disc brakes resemble hand brakes on a bicycle, where pulling on the brake lever forces a plier-like device to squeeze rubber blocks against the rim of the wheel to stop the car. Drum brakes are a ...

Though a decade ago it was far from the case, nowadays, the likelihood for a technician to work on a newer truck with air disc brakes (ADBs) is about the same as one with drum brakes. “Almost half of ...

If there’s one thing on commercial vehicles that operations and maintenance professionals need to understand, it’s braking systems. Not getting a truck to start rolling on time will cause delayed ...