A Toytown resident this week lambasted City Council for recently rescinding a three-year-old prohibition on truckers using jake brakes on 31st Street below Mill Run in his neighborhood. Mike Servello ...

Mercer Borough Council is working to eliminate the nuisance of the noise of large trucks using jake brakes. At a meeting last week, they discussed a potential ordinance ...

NORTH OLMSTED City leaders are considering legislation that would prohibit truck drivers and those operating heavy machinery from creating unreasonable noise through the excessive use of engine brakes ...

SALEM — Perry Township Trustee Cliff Mix said he will check on whether the township can pass a resolution and get signs to regulate the use of jake brakes on state Route 14, but Trustee Don Rudibaugh ...

For heavy duty trucks like semis hauling lots of cargo over long distances, conventional friction brakes just can't do it on their own. To maintain safe speeds and prevent overheating on long descents ...

Story County supervisors decided against a jake brake ordinance Tuesday after noise complaints on West Riverside Road, saying the ordinance would not be enforceable. A jake brake, or a compression ...

By J.T. WHITEHOUSE Staff writer CANFIELD — Council members heard from Canfield Township Trustee Marie Cartwright at their Wednesday meeting, where she provided a welcome update to a noise problem in ...

HALEDON — Drivers of heavy trucks are the target of a proposed law the Borough Council was expected to pass this week to stop the use of loud brakes on local streets. The brakes that officials want to ...

Delmont officials will move ahead in developing a “jake-brake” ordinance, despite acknowledging that their police department will not be able to enforce it. Borough officials asked the state ...

Logan County’s Board of Commissioners approved on first reading a resolution to require mufflers on truck decompression brakes in the county. The brakes are devices that allow diesel engines to use ...

Engine braking is now banned in Hall County within a one-mile jurisdiction of its communities. At its meeting Tuesday, the Hall County Board of Supervisors voted 5-2 to approve a resolution that ...