Brake Sentry™: Visual Brake Stroke Indicators

Equipping brake chambers with the BrakeSentry™: Visual Brake Stroke Indicators provides a significant advantage by allowing quick and effective visual inspections for fleet brake stroke measurement. This semi-truck brake measuring tool helps drivers and technicians identify out-of-adjustment brake conditions without crawling under vehicles. Brake-related issues often remain undetected and expose fleets to high costs, risks, and liabilities.

This brake stroke indicator can reduce inspection time from 25 to less than 2 minutes—a simple visual inspection of stroke measured in 1/4” increments gets the job done. The BrakeSentry™ brake stroke measurement tool saves labor time, reduces costs, and minimizes risks associated with brake defects. It fits all brake chambers with an external 5/8” push rod and is made from a flexible, unbreakable material.

Keep your fleet safe and avoid additional downtime by installing BrakeSentry™: Visual Brake Stroke Indicators on every truck. Each kit contains product to complete one axle/two chambers. It includes 2 indicators, 2 clips, 2 gauges, plus 2 brackets and fasteners. Shop additional heavy-duty brake equipment and specialty vehicle tools to better perform essential maintenance and keep your fleet rolling efficiently.

BrakeSentry™ Brake Stroke Indicator Advantages:

• Assists drivers for pre/post-trip inspections
• Dual function of stroke indicator and brake chamber seal
• Easily installed in 3 minutes with no special tools
• Eliminates damaging manual adjustments to auto slacks
• Eliminates the need to reference and measure at each wheel position physically
• Fits all brake chambers with an external 5/8” push rod
• Made from flexible and unbreakable material
• Non-invasive and non-obstructive
• Provides an effective troubleshooting aid to mechanics
• Quickly identifies failures and defects for prompt correction
• Reduces costly downtime, OOS violations, and fines
• Reduces PM inspection times by more than 85%
• Reduces safety lane inspection time
• Visible even with road dirt

Cost Benefit Analysis:

Example: Your fleet has 50 tandem axle trucks. Each receives one PM inspection per month. The average time to properly inspect brake stroke adjustment is 25 minutes using the industry-prescribed applied stroke method (this requires referencing each brake chamber’s push rod while brakes are released, then measuring push rod travel at each wheel position with brakes applied).

Without BrakeSentry™:

• 50 vehicles x 25 minutes = 1,250 or 20.8 hours per month
• 20.8 hours per month x 12 months = 249.6 hours per year
• Average labor rate of $40.00 per hour x 20.8 hours = $832.00 per month
• $832.00 per month x 12 months = $9,984.00 per year

With BrakeSentry™:

• 50 vehicles X 2 minutes = 100 minutes or 1.7 hours per month
• 1.7 hours per month X 12 months = 20.4 hours per year
• $40.00 (labor rate) X 1.7 hours = $68.00 per month
• $68.00 per month X 12 months = $816.00 per year

Comparison Savings:

• Without BrakeSentry™: 249.6 hours/year = $9,984.00 per year
• With BrakeSentry™: 20.4 hours/year = $816.00 per year

The total monetary savings by switching to this brake stroke indicator is around $9,168.00 per year. Time saved averages around 229.2 hours per year. With BrakeSentry™: Visual Brake Stroke Indicators, the industry-prescribed applied stroke method can be done in a fraction of the time without having to mark and measure stroke at each wheel position.

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