At the heart of a commercial vehicle’s air brake system is its air compressor, which pressurizes air in the primary and secondary tanks to provide power for the air brakes and other pneumatic systems.

Cold temperatures and water can lead to only one outcome – and ice has no place in a truck's air system. Frozen moisture can disable compressors, along with any of the multitude of air valves in the ...

As summer yields inexorably to autumn and later, winter, that most common and familiar commodity we call water takes on a sinister edge. Ice is great in a cool drink, or for skating. It’s not so much ...