WEIRTON, W.Va. — Residents along Beverly Avenue off Freedom way in Weirton say they have been facing a loud issue -- trucks using Jake brakes. Joe Smith has lived in the same house for decades and ...

Relief may have finally arrived for Dillon residents upset about truck noise rolling through town at night. For more than a year now residents in the Dillon Valley have been losing sleep as a result ...

The Mankato City Council remained skeptical Monday night about the effectiveness of any available tools to put the brakes on loud truck noises. But council members, after a yearlong discussion of the ...

Newton City Council this week passed the ban in a 5-1 vote with Randy Ervin voting “no.” The council member said he ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (KSLA) — Extremely loud noises from sand trucks and other big rigs near residential areas of Bossier City have led to a new law. As a result, the use of Jake brakes soon will be ...

The use of “Jake brakes” is now banned in designated parts of Morgan County after the Sept. 2 meeting of the Morgan County Board of Commissioners. The commissioners unanimously passed Ordinance No. 1, ...

Since June 2023 I have been corresponding with officials from the town of Vail and the Colorado Department of Transportation about the engine brake (“Jake brake”) noise that those of us living in East ...

Sep. 16—MERCER — 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 to regulate ...

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 ...

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 ...

What are ‘jake brakes'? "Jake brakes" are the common term for the Jacobs engine brake, which alters the operation of an engine's exhaust and allows it to function as a power-absorbing air compressor ...

A new approach to jake brakes may be in the works. The city's transportation and traffic commission voted 4-2 in favor of recommending the City Council adopt a bill requiring engine brake mufflers in ...