A Toytown resident this week lambasted City Council for recently rescinding a three-year-old prohibition on truckers using jake brakes on 31st Street below Mill Run in his neighborhood. Mike Servello ...

A Toytown man who has publicly complained about trucks using jake brakes in his neighborhood has been charged with attempted homicide after allegedly firing a bullet into the windshield of a truck ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 16—MERCER — Mercer Borough Council is working to eliminate the nuisance of the noise of large trucks using jake brakes. At a ...

A new approach to jake brakes may be in the works. The city's transportation and traffic commission voted 4-2 in favor of recommending the City Council adopt a bill requiring engine brake mufflers in ...

The town of Pacific is about to become Columbia County's first rural area where truckers are prohibited from using loud compressed-air brakes. But, Sheriff Dennis Richards cautioned, enforcement of ...

A proposed noise ordinance over Jake Brakes could be difficult to enforce. City councilmen were divided during a public safety meeting over the efficacy of an ordinance against use of the brakes. One ...

The Hall County board is considering a countywide ban on Jake brakes on semi-trucks. There is already an ordinance addressing this. The issue by JBS from out-of-state truckers is understandable, and a ...

William Delanoy told the zoning board that he wasn’t looking for sympathy; he was looking for the board to act. “We’re working-class people,” he said, “and we rely on you guys to protect us.” ...

The use of “Jake brakes” is now banned in designated parts of Morgan County after the Sept. 2 meeting of the Morgan County Board of Commissioners. The commissioners unanimously passed Ordinance No. 1, ...

Sep. 16—MERCER — Mercer Borough Council is working to eliminate the nuisance of the noise of large trucks using jake brakes. At a meeting last week, they discussed a potential ordinance to regulate ...