Commercial HGV Brake Testing With An Infra Red Gun

Why An Infra Red Temp Gun?? Infra Red Temperature guns are a excellent Brake Tester for checking individual wheel disks or drums to determine brake activation. We have heard that the DVSA often recommend the use of Infra Red Temperature Guns and see them as good practice in any Commercial Vehicle Fleet or Truck Workshop. With the ease of just pointing the Infra Red Light at the wheel hub from the outer edge of a trailer or truck and without removing wheels, an infra Red Temp Gun can indicate if a wheel is not braking efficiently as compared to the other wheels on the vehicle. We have reports of one Truck Driver stating "Been stopped about 10 times in my driving career over 30 years, the last time, he pointed a thermometer at my wheel hubs & explained to me that one was running cool, meaning that is wasn't doing its job, I was amazed by the technology, didn't realise that you could get a temperature reading with a laser/infrared light without even touching the hub. Got the workshop to adjust the brakes when I got back to the yard" Used in conjunction with BrakeCheck (HGV Brake Tester or Decelerometer), the second best brake test to a Roller Brake Test.