JBS EQUIPMENT are main distributors for Everquip, UK sole importers of VAMAG HGV Brake Testing Equipment. Mobile, Inground or Lift Bed Load Simulation brake testers, turn key installations , competitive finance available.
While every workshop knows the importance of regular brake testing with nthe DVSA regulations around load simulation, basic equipment isn’t always enough. Standard brake testing measures how your brakes are performing with an empty vehicle. When a commercial vehicle is out on the road, it’s rarely empty. And with the extra weight of goods and materials, your brakes have to work even harder to safely slow and stop the vehicle.
To be sure that your vehicles’ braking systems are working safely and properly, you need to test them under a weighted load. For a vehicle to be ‘appropriately laden’, it needs to be loaded with at least 65% of the vehicle’s design axle weight (DAW). The manual approach with physical weights will get the job done. But it’s a big time-sink, and it needs uses expensive labour.
Modern workshops are switching to load simulation brake testers — where the ‘weight’ is applied by the brake tester itself. Slings are attached to a sliding rail that’s concreted into the floor. These slings are then attached to the vehicle, which pull down as the roller bed raises up — creating the dual-force effect that simulates the load. It is a unique system built into an in-ground brake tester that allows the operator to raise the roller bed out of the ground — lifted by 4 hydraulic cylinders for each roller bed.
The brake test is a one man operation from within the cab – when using the VAMAG HGV Load Simulation Brake Tester.