Leon Richard of Farmington, ME One other issue I recently noticed, as I lost a brake line on my personal car. Used to be, the front and rear brakes had separate sections in the master cylinder for fluid storage. Meaning? If you lost a brake line, either front or rear, in the vehicle, you would retain use of the brakes on the opposite end of the car.

So, even though the fluid ran out of the broken brake line, the car still had brakes.

New car? Might be that the brakes are all run off a storage reservoir in the master cylinder, and when you break a line, all the fluid will run out and you will have absolutely no brakes if you continue to drive the car.

Doesn't seem better to me, for some reason...report abuse

wade of jackman, ME Along with brake lines, wires, and auto body parts rusting and corrosion we have problems in roads with more pot holes and roughness. When using calcium it works to well. It causes ice to melt into a water form and runs into the cracks of the roads and thaws the ground under the pavement causing a very rough road to drive on especially in a tractor trailer.

I have read another add on here talking about people driving to fast, but most of the accidents in the winter and in the rain are caused by slow nervous drivers. They drive slowly because they are scared and they are the ones to panic. Most truck accidents are not because of icy roads but because of another vehicle pulling out in front of tractor trailers. Trucks cannot stop well in icy or even in dry conditions. Though trucks do handle so much better in snowy conditions than a can will. They also handle better than a car any time when not loaded. Any way speed is not the problem but calcium is.report abuse

wade of jackman, ME I am a truck driver from jackman to skowhegan and I have the same corrosion problems as every other truck around here. We have corrosion problems in wires, paint, bolts etc. Brake lines are not to blame being made cheaper. Trucks don't have metal brake lines, they have plastic lines with air running through them. Every other part of our trucks are corroding as said earlier. With that said we can't blame the brake lines being made cheaper. I have talked to other truck drivers who deliver calcium to bingham, the forks, and jackman. Thats proof that we still use crap on the roads. They have delivered countless loads of it last winter. Not only are the brake lines going on vehicles but they are just simply rusting out. Not to blame on thinner material of the vehicle steel. Take an older car from mass. and the same one, (year) with about the same miles from jackman and compare rust. We need to use more sand less calcium. We can't tell where the black ice is. The roads may look only wet but have black ice and many trucks get jack knived on hills because they spin and can't make the hill. If the hill had sand, then they would make it more often.report abuse

hadanuff of E.Vassalboro, ME This article fails to mention stricter inspection rules on visable corrosion on lines. No sticker for any discoloration thanks to the State police thugs whom bully inspection stations.report abuse