It’s imperative to have a trailer brake controller when towing a trailer that has electric or electric over hydraulic brakes. In most states, an adjustable trailer brake controller is required when ...

There are two things to know if you’re going to tow a trailer: Towing is never a trivial matter, and you can never have too much brakes. If you can't pull a trailer over a hill because you don’t have ...

Your car's brakes are designed to stop your car, not the extra couple thousand pounds you've hitched to the back. When your trailer doesn't have its own braking system, all that extra momentum, or ...

Most incidents involving total air-brake failures go unreported officially and simply become the stuff of legend. But a few too many of them have resulted in very public collisions. Until recently, ...

Ford is recalling 4,380,609 vehicles due to an issue with the Integrated Trailer Module (ITRM) that affects trailer brake lights and can impact the trailer brakes. The recall includes the F-150, F-250 ...

A hydraulic surge-brake actuator is one of those items you rarely think about until it malfunctions and wreaks havoc with your boat-trailer brakes. Sometimes the hydraulics in the actuator develop a ...

GM has issued a service bulletin for certain units of the GMC Sierra, GMC Yukon and GMC Hummer EV due to an issue with the brake control switch. The problem: affected vehicles equipped with the ...

GM has issued a service bulletin for certain units of the Cadillac Escalade due to a problem related to the brake control switch. The problem: affected vehicles equipped with the Integrated Trailer ...

The bulk of the affected vehicles are F-150 and F-250 Super Duty pickups—over 3.4 million units combined. Ford Recall Article Over 4.3 million Ford trucks and SUVs recalled for software defect ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William covers motorbikes, E-bikes, cars, trucks and mobility tech. If there’s an Achilles Heel to towing a heavy trailer with a ...

We’ve shown how you can get your hydraulic trailer brakes up to stratch, but if you want ultimate stopping power you should consider updrading to air. Why air? Installation: part 1 Installation: part ...