How do you validate a return on investment (ROI) from accident mitigation? When you avoid an accident you don’t know how much revenue may have been lost because of unforeseen downtime, and how much you didn’t spend on repairs or hospital bills. This topic was one of the talking points at a recent panel discussion during Heavy Duty Aftermarket Dialogue this past January. The conversation circled around the increased specing of air disc brakes in heavy duty fleets, and validated why this adoption continues. The reasons for specing air disc brakes over drums haven’t changed — reduced stopping distance, almost no fading or pulling, longer service intervals, less time to perf [...]