Dr Air Brake’s cure for park brake dangers
Doctor Air Brake, which has more than 30 years’ experience specialising in electronic and pneumatic commercial vehicle equipment, offers the Park Brake Warning (PBW) system among its safety product portfolio.
“Recent studies show that the number of truck and bus rollaways continue to grow despite OEM warnings being fitted as standard,” said the company.
“The PBW alerts the driver when the cab access door is opened, and the park brake is not applied. The system monitors numerous variables which can affect parking safety, such as both driver and passenger doors, the seatbelts, and the seat occupancy pad.”
The PBW features a dual loud voice alert, which sounds the second a door is opened with the park brake not applied. The system will also deal with low air situations when normal air pressure sensors cannot detect park state. Once the system is triggered by any of these factors, the park brake must be applied before reset can occur.
“Having this superb safety feature fitted to your vehicle will help improve both worker and public safety in preventing a rollaway,” said Doctor Air Brake.
“It far exceeds the standard OEM warnings and will also help in saving you costs in repairs to the vehicle or even property repairs so you will not have any unwanted insurance costs.”
