Heavy Duty Truck Brakes & Semi Truck Brakes

When operating heavy-duty vehicles like semi-trucks, tractors, cranes and other industrial use machinery, you have to have reliable braking systems in place. At Knott Brake, we have an extensive selection of custom brakes at your disposal. We’ll complete the job quickly and efficiently because we understand that broken equipment and stalled jobs will affect your bottom line.

Our braking solutions are effective, high-quality, and low-maintenance. These brakes get built to last so that you can keep your heavy loads on the road and brake safely. Read more about our products and what we have to offer.

Best Brakes for Trucks

You’ll typically find air brakes on heavy-duty trucks, tractors, and buses. The brake system consists of parking brakes, service brakes, an air storage tank, and a control pedal. We supply excellent quality truck brakes for a variety of heavy-load vehicles.

You will also need a drum or disc for the parking brake, used when you hold it in the “applied” position by the pressure of the spring. We’ll take a look at your vehicle and give you our expert opinion on the best braking solutions for your truck. No matter what the problem may be, we’ll figure out how to address it quickly and efficiently.

High Performance Brakes for Trucks

Our custom-made high-performance brakes for trucks guarantee ultimate power and control regardless of your needs. Whether you’re hauling a heavy load, towing a trailer, racing, casually driving, or operating a monster truck- our brakes let you stop on a dime.

You will be able to stop quickly, smoothly, and without any hiccups with our high-performance brakes. These types of brakes are crucial for trucks that have oversized tires and wheels, which add to the overall weight of the vehicle. Check out our selection of heavy-duty truck brakes when you need to get reliable equipment at an affordable price.

Tractor Trailer Brakes

The tractor-trailer brakes system is an air braking system that involves automatic spring brake installation and air tanks. You also need additional valves for industrial vehicles that get used to tow trailers. Don’t get caught with inadequate brakes when operating a tractor-trailer; our team will ensure that you have the best disc or drum brakes to give you optimal stoppage no matter the road conditions.

Crane Brakes

A hoist brake is vital for cranes because it can slow down or speed up its motion vertically while also stopping at a stable height when lowering or raising goods.

Your overhead crane brakes get automatically applied once the hoisting motion gets disrupted. The holding brakes on a crane require particular torque settings. We also specialize in electric crane brakes that require a block-type structure. Let us take a look at yours today!

Semi-Truck Brakes

Semi-trucks use air brakes; this system consists of three different types of brakes:

  • Parking brakes
  • Air brakes
  • Emergency brakes

Each component of the braking system plays a different role in the stopping of semi-truck. We have the perfect semi-truck brakes for sale, custom-designed to suit your needs.

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What Are Air Brakes?

Generally, air brakes get used on trucks, trailers, semi-trailers, and buses. Air brakes reign supreme as the preferred design for brakes with larger vehicles. That has to do with the fact that air brakes are efficient and operate through air use. The abundance of air allows air brakes to be reliable.

Moreover, semi-trucks and vehicles like them utilize compressed air. For this reason, it is not unusual to hear air brakes referred to as “a compressed air brake system,” which happens to be the more technical name for the air braking system. Our truck brakes are well-constructed, custom-designed for your vehicle, and come with a warranty.

Parking Brakes

Parking brakes are crucial when it comes to large and heavy vehicles such as buses and semi-trucks. Due to the sheer size of the vehicle, additional braking support is necessary to prevent it from rolling away while parked.

When the parking brakes are on, springs apply the brakes. However, while the truck is moving, the air brakes in control allow the compressed air to flow, preventing the springs from the parking brakes from releasing.

Tractors and trailers equipped with air brakes:

The tractor refers to the front part of the semi-truck, which consists of the engine, cab, and the place where the driver sits to operate the vehicle.

The weight of both the tractor and trailer is the reason why each needs its own parking brakes. However, these brakes work together in unison thanks to the braking system making it easier to stop these heavy vehicles.

Emergency Brakes

Emergency brakes are essential to semi-trucks. If the standard brakes were to lose air pressure, the emergency brakes would kick in to stop the vehicle. As you can imagine, this is vital and can save many lives on the road.

However, not all emergency brakes automatically engage; some emergency brakes have to get installed manually. Yet and still, when these brakes get maintained properly, they operate efficiently and prevent serious injuries from happening.

Call us today for a consultation if your heavy-duty vehicle needs truck brakes and expert customer service. We’re here to help and give you the best products designed for customer convenience and supreme dependability when you’re out in the field.

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