BRAKING NEWS®
Braking News®: Insights for the Heavy-Duty Parts Business
Product updates, market trends, technical tips, and business insights for dealers, distributors, and shops in the heavy-duty brake market.
Product updates, market trends, technical tips, and business insights for dealers, distributors, and shops in the heavy-duty brake market.
Expanding beyond heavy-duty, DuraBrake introduces a comprehensive light and medium-duty brake drum and hub/drum assembly lineup.
As mentioned in our previous articles, Webb has petitioned for antidumping and countervailing duties on cast iron brake drums MADE in China and Turkey and ... Read more
Given the competitive nature of brake drums, one of the levers to reduce cost is to reduce the weight of the drum. It saves both ... Read more
As a reward to those that like to place orders for DuraBrake rotors, pads, and calipers on a weekly basis, we’ve officially started Air Disc ... Read more
With the onset of rotors, and the uncertainties of production of Motor Wheel’s Centrifuse drum, many predicted that the steel-shell drum would soon phase out. Then ... Read more
As we saw our standard cast brake drum (our part number16792X) price increase by approximately 100% over the year, we wondered how much higher it could ... Read more
Air disc brakes are steadily increasing in popularity in the heavy-duty industry and due to the high-temperatures, it’s relatively common to see component failures in ... Read more