The Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) has published an updated edition of the ‘Look Behind You’ guide to tractor-trailer braking. The guide is aimed at anyone who uses or maintains tractors and trailers and seeks to raise awareness of how the systems work and minimum legal requirements.
The AEA published the first ‘Look Behind You’ guide ten years ago to raise awareness of the importance of safe tractor-trailer or tractor-trailed implement combinations
Since then, tractors, trailers and trailed implements have become bigger, more tractors can reach 50kph and pneumatic (air) braking systems are more common.
The updated guide still contains the basic information as well as complex braking systems on modern machinery in order to improve understanding, operation and overall safety.
The new guide can be viewed and downloaded here.