Automatic Brake Slack Adjusters on Transit Buses

摘要

The purpose of the report is to provide transit bus agencies with current information on automatic brake slack adjusters. Rather than a comprehensive statistical survey, the report is intended to provide an overview of the states of automatic slack adjusters in the transit industry. It documents an investigation of current transit experiences with automatic slack adjusters in order to establish the potential range of maintenance cost savings associated with the equipment. The scope of the report includes information on use, problems, benefits and costs of automatic slack adjusters in the transit bus industry.