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trailerCheck by Freight-Tech Limited
An on-site trailer brake testing solution
Freight-Tech Limited are developing a solution which allows operators to perform a brake test on a semi trailer without taking it to a workshop. This helps operators reduce vehicle and driver downtime as well as carbon emissions and maintenance costs.
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The trailerCheck app guides the user through the process which includes separate tests for the parking brake and service brake. All that is required to perform the test is a suitable tractor unit and an area of around 20m. Once the test is complete, a report is created; detailing the results of the test, which is kept in the vehicle maintenance records.
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Freight-Tech is developing a solution called trailerCheck to conduct a meaningful brake test for trailers on site as part of the inspection regime, rather than the trailer being taken off site to a workshop. It hopes to launch its device as soon as trials are complete.
Grogut explains: “Operators are telling us that maintenance providers do not have the provision for conducting the volume of work required. We are carrying out trials on the technology with the DVSA involved and once it’s rolled out and adopted by operators, the expectation is it will be recognised in the guidance as a new technology used to carry out meaningful brake tests.”
Freight Tech’s device is like a diagnostic tool, its software running on a mobile phone or tablet that can be used by operators who don’t have a rolling road at their facility. It can be operated from the vehicle’s cab to measure the amount of brake force generated from the trailer’s brakes while in the yard. A report is produced by the system, detailing the brake results, which can then be emailed or printed out to show the brakes satisfy the test criteria.
“The idea is that the operators can carry this out with actual product in the trailer as the trailer is ready to go out,” Grogut explains. “It’s more efficient to do it when the vehicles are loaded because it represents true load conditions for the test, and the procedure itself doesn’t involve excessive speed or harsh braking, meaning it’s safe to conduct in the yard. The whole process only takes two to three minutes.”