Title 49, § 393.55
Anti-Lock Brakes
(a) Hydraulic brake systems. Each truck and bus manufactured on
or after March 1, 1999 (except trucks and buses engaged in driveaway-
towaway operations), and equipped with a hydraulic brake system,
shall be equipped with an antilock brake system that meets the requirements
of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 105 (49 CFR
571.105, S5.5).
(b) ABS malfunction indicators for hydraulic braked vehicles. Each
hydraulic braked vehicle subject to the requirements of paragraph
(a) of this section shall be equipped with an ABS malfunction indicator
system that meets the requirements of FMVSS No. 105 (49 CFR 571.105,
S5.3).
(c) Air brake systems.
(1) Each truck tractor manufactured on or after March 1, 1997 (except
truck tractors engaged in driveaway-towaway operations), shall be
equipped with an antilock brake system that meets the requirements
of FMVSS No. 121 (49 CFR 571.121, S5.1.6.1(b)).
(2) Each air braked commercial motor vehicle other than a truck
tractor, manufactured on or after March 1, 1998 (except commercial
motor vehicles engaged in driveaway-towaway operations), shall be
equipped with an antilock brake system that meets the requirements
of FMVSS No. 121 (49 CFR 571.121, S5.1.6.1(a) for trucks and buses,
S5.2.3 for semitrailers, converter dollies and full trailers).
(d) ABS malfunction circuits and signals for air braked vehicles.
(1) Each truck tractor manufactured on or after March 1, 1997,
and each single-unit air braked vehicle manufactured on or after
March 1, 1998, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of this
section, shall be equipped with an electrical circuit that is capable
of signaling a malfunction that affects the generation or transmission
of response or control signals to the vehicle's antilock brake system
(49 CFR 571.121, S5.1.6.2(a)).
(2) Each truck tractor manufactured on or after March 1, 2001,
and each single-unit vehicle that is equipped to tow another air-braked
vehicle, subject to the requirements of paragraph (c) of this section,
shall be equipped with an electrical circuit that is capable of
transmitting a malfunction signal from the antilock brake system(s)
on the towed vehicle(s) to the trailer ABS malfunction lamp in the
cab of the towing vehicle, and shall have the means for connection
of the electrical circuit to the towed vehicle. The ABS malfunction
circuit and signal shall meet the requirements of FMVSS No. 121
(49 CFR 571.121, S5.1.6.2(b)).
(3) Each semitrailer, trailer converter dolly, and full trailer
manufactured on or after March 1, 2001, and subject to the requirements
of paragraph (c)(2) of this section, shall be equipped with an electrical
circuit that is capable of signaling a malfunction in the trailer's
antilock brake system, and shall have the means for connection of
this ABS malfunction circuit to the towing vehicle. In addition,
each trailer manufactured on or after March 1, 2001, subject to
the requirements of paragraph (c)(2) of this section, that is designed
to tow another air-brake equipped trailer shall be capable of transmitting
a malfunction signal from the antilock brake system(s) of the trailer(s)
it tows to the vehicle in front of the trailer. The ABS malfunction
circuit and signal shall meet the requirements of FMVSS No. 121
(49 CFR 571.121, S5.2.3.2).
(e) Exterior ABS malfunction indicator lamps for trailers. Each
trailer (including a trailer converter dolly) manufactured on or
after March 1, 1998 and before March 1, 2009, and subject to the
requirements of paragraph (c)(2) of this section, shall be equipped
with an ABS malfunction indicator lamp which meets the requirements
of FMVSS No. 121 (49 CFR 571.121, S5.2.3.3).
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