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 ...

The Colorado Motor Carriers Association and Vail leaders have entered into a “multi-faceted approach” toward reducing noise on the stretch of Interstate 70 that runs through town. “We want to work ...

The next generation of the so-called Jake Brake, built by Jacobs Manufacturers, will likely come to market in 2019, the company announced Wednesday at the North American Commercial Vehicle show in ...

Jacobs Vehicle Systems announced its engine brake model 5783A is now standard equipment on the International A26 engine. Jacobs has supplied a compression release engine brake for International ...

The RCIPS has issued a traffic advisory to remind truck drivers that it is illegal to use unmuffled engine compression brakes (also known as Jake Brakes) other than for emergency purposes.

An Edneyville resident presented county commissioners with a petition Wednesday signed by 31 of her neighbors, begging them to pass an ordinance to rein in the use of engine compression brakes, or ...

The next generation of the so-called Jake Brake, built by Jacobs Manufacturers, will likely come to market in 2019, the company announced Wednesday at the North American Commercial Vehicle show in ...

City Council may consider an ordinance that would allow it to prohibit the use of jake brakes, although council is likely to put the prohibition into practice for now only along 31st Street below Mill ...

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 ...

A law designed to limit noise from heavy-truck engines passing through Delaware residential areas is difficult to enforce because of a “loophole” written into its recently-adopted text, a state police ...

In a marriage seemingly written in the stars, Cummins on Wednesday announced it plans to acquire Jacobs Vehicle Systems. Jacobs in 1961 introduced the first engine brake, the “Jake Brake,” which was ...