Doc- I see you don't read the Mercury a lot. If you did you would have seen this on 2-7-12 Look it up. JAKE BRAKES ARE ALLOWED ON ROUTE 100.
PennDOT won’t ban ‘jake brakes’ on Route 100 hill
POTTSTOWN — The Route 100 hill between State Street and Shoemaker Road is too steep in places to ban southbound trucks from using the over-loud “jake brakes” for slowing down as they approach the traffic light.
Pottstown began looking into a potential ban when Councilman Jeff Chomnuk received a query in early December from a resident of Upland Street. The resident said trucks use jake brakes when coming down the hill and, with the leaves off the trees, the sound can be quite penetrating, Chomnuk said.Borough Council agreed to Chomnuk’s request and asked PennDOT to conduct a study. Pottstown Borough Manager Jason Bobst explained that PennDOT looks at three criteria when determining whether to put limits on heavy trucks. They are crash data, grade and speed limit. When the study was completed, it found that only three “reportable” crashes involving heavy trucks occurred on that stretch of road between 2006 and 2010. Also, the grade of the road exceeds 4 percent for 1,900 feet. That, combined with the fact that the trucks are allowed to drive at 55 miles per hour, means PennDOT wants to allow them as many ways as possible to slow down. As a result, because Route 100 is a state road, PennDOT will not be limiting the use of jake brakes on that section of road, said Bobst.

Before you complain get the facts RIGHTS.

Ya know what I'm talking about trucker life. Maybe it is a dot/puc issue then. Maybe we need a nice dot/puc checkpoint on 100 just north of Pottstown. I'm taking about the trucks with extremely modified pipes that make excessive noise then excessive noise again- ya know exactly what I'm referring to. Honestly I use one chamber in my brakes coming down sometimes - but it's a muffled rumble. Pottstown has the right to step up on this noise issue. They can build sound barriers too. I have the right to complain for sure. I mean at 2 in the morning and your hauling some nasty untarped load on a truck that should of been out of service 10 years ago and u sound like a freaking fifty cal machine gun when u slow - have some respect and slow down for the grade and don't wake an entire town with your excessive braking noise.

Rt 100 has been there for a long time. This is like the city slicker moving to the country then complaining about the "country air" coming in from the local dairy farm.

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/21416/3236626?title=the_mercury_full_feed_w_shared_content

It's obviously been approached before....

Jake brakes when it comes to hills is a safety issue. Brakes use air, engine compression saves the air for when you really need to brake the truck. While I agree modified exhaust is an issue and could help muffle the noise, but banning them is taking away a feature a driver needs to control his vehicle on a hill.