I have used my jakes in a jake restricted zone, it was some place outside Dover or Willmington. Lots of hills and commute traffic to deal with , and it was night
I was willing to take the ticket for that one.

But usually, if it is restricted, I'll turn them off because usually those restrictions come with lower speeds. Just have to be alot more alert and cautious under a heavy load in "no jake" zones.

But being "no jake" zones probably make up a total of about %2 of total driving, its not a big deal for me to comply.

 

Jakes are only a supplement to your regular brakes and a truck should always be driven as if it does not have any jakes at all.

Many drivers who get into trouble do so because they rely on their jakes to slow them down.

 

Actually loud pipes do alert motorist to the fact there is a motorcycle nearby. No matter how responsibly the motorcyclist drives and what gear he wears he cannot help the other guy pay attention. People do not see motorcyles as well if they are not paying much attention to what they are doing. Let me find my article and I will try and post it here.

 

I've crossed this country a dozen or more times on a bike, and logged probably 250,000miles in the last 25 years. I've ridden everything from a Goldwing, VFR 1000,Yzf R-1's (3 of these) Ducati Multistrada, and a handful I can't even remember, to my latest Speed Triple.
Some of these bikes were loud, some you couldn't tell when they were running.
I've had people pull out on me on every single bike regardless of how much noise I was making.
The only thing that ever saved my life was riding with the pre- conceived notion that nobody can see me, and they are all going to run me down.
Cagers are all the same, they all make the same moves, they all react the same.
Maybe loud pipes save lives in area where A/C isn't a year round thing, but down here in Heavens waiting room, in the sweltering heat,...these idiots don't even hear sirens from 50 feet away.

 

Thinks back to all those times he kicked on the Jake while in one of those tunnels around Virginia Beach, and tries to look innocent :roll: :roll: :roll:

No, no pleasure here. :twisted:

 

Ok I am guilty of this one to. I love the way my jakes sound inside a tunnel. lol. :lol: But other than that I only use them to aid in slowing down.

 

You can have the loudest pipes on a bike and roman candles sticking out of your ass...and they wont see you. Relying on loud pipes to save your life is like jumping off the roof with an umbrella, it might work but in the end it wont do a darn thing.
Here's how I ride...
Everyone , except me............is blind. Knowing that everyone is blind keeps me very alert. Probably why going into trucking isnt much differrent from riding a motorcycle.........as far as safety and alertness goes.
You have to just resign yourself to the fact that everyone on the road is wearing blinders and have their windshields painted black.