NHTSA, in the rule, said three-axle tractors weighing less than 59,600 pounds must meet the new stopping distance by Aug. 1, 2011, and two-axle tractors and tractors weighing 59,600 pounds or more ...

versus the old standard of 355 feet – a reduction of truck stopping distance of roughly 30% The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has finally issued long-awaited new braking ...

By setting a maximum stopping distance of no more than 250 feet from 60 mph, starting with 2012 models, NHTSA cut the standard by more than 100 feet. Early tests did not instill confidence in the ...

says NHTSA. Such improvements would reduce the stopping distance disparity with light vehicles, and would result in fewer deaths and injuries and reduce property damage due to fewer crashes ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to require a 30 percent improvement in stopping distance for new heavy truck tractors, within two years. Although the agency ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has finished drafting its proposal to reduce the required stopping distance for new ... In 1970, NHTSA proposed changes in FMVSS 121 to shorten ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today, July 24, issued a long-awaited regulation to tighten the stopping distance standards ... disc/drum systems, NHTSA says.

The upcoming commercial vehicle stopping distance final rule from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which is expected to mandate as much as a 30% shorter stopping ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is about to publish proposed revisions to its current air brake regulations, but those rules will most likely be less sweeping than some industry ...

How exactly? Well, the NHTSA has announced a new set of braking rules that will improve large truck stopping distance by 30 percent and is expected to save 227 lives and prevent 300 serious ...