McClure said his office typically receives complaints in the spring and summer months when more people sleep with their windows open and are woken up by a “Jake brake” in the early morning.

CANON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) - Canon City has adopted a new ordinance to prohibit the use of compression release brakes, also known as Jake Brakes or engine brakes.

Engine or compression brakes — sometimes known as Jake brakes after the first company, Jacobs Vehicle Systems, to manufacture them — are engine brake mechanisms installed on some diesel ...

An Edneyville resident presented county commissioners with a petition Wednesday signed by 31 of her neighbors, begging them to pass an ordinance to rein in the use of engine compression brakes, or ...