Your Truck has more power, your trailer has grown heavier, being able to stop all that dependably safer is why I recommend BrakeSmart.

I've tested the BrakesSmart trailer brake controller, many times with Andrew Lyons of Transwest Truck Trailer RV. Trailer brakes have come along way and BrakeSmart is the leader in improving your safety, your horses safety and comfort as well as the rest of the population you share the roads with. Trailer brakes are often neglected until there is problem. I've spent too much time with a flashlight in my mouth sometimes in the rain working on my trailer brakes, magnets, wiring, and fuses after I discovered my brakes weren't helping any. Heavy loads and shifting animals require that everything works, and surprises can be deadly. You won't find a better product for dependable brake and whole trailer management. BrakeSmart can put your trailer at the same level of technology that your enjoy with your new truck.

BrakeSmart" trailer brake controller will run electric or hydraulic brakes and talk about power! My test drive with Andrew was smooth. When you are applying the brakes, you don't know you have a trailer on back! The is no jerk when the trailer brakes kick in. This was pulling a trailer with electric brakes too. The controller is programmable to fine tune your trailer braking requirements but why? It's automatic and self adjusting, it knows if you have electric brakes, hydraulic brakes, air ride, loaded or empty trailer and detects and displays trailer brake system problems. You will have a full trailer brake at any gain setting and there are 16 gain settings.

BrakeSmart is light years ahead in the trailer industry. By using the latest computer technology, their BrakeSmart brake controller and Smart Box can manage and diagnose all aspects of your trailer including air axles, auto leveling, Living Quarters, and power jack battery management, trailer light auto off, anti-theft brake lock, and like your truck you can have ABS on your trailer. ABS is required on trucks 10,000# GVWR and above and will be part of many future government trailer brake requirements. Modern horse trailers with Living Quarters and RV fifth wheel trailers can have many complicated electrical components.

The BrakesSmart controller will automatically compensate for electric brake fade and will constantly keep your brakes at their maximum performance. You've probably heard how great pendulum style brake controllers are. BrakeSmart trailer brake controller goes one better by sensing the truck's pedal pressure (hydraulic pressure) with their solid-state pressure sensor. In other words the trailer brakes are activated at the same time as the truck's brakes. Now how can you beat that for speed? 

"BrakeSmart" trailer brake controller read out.

BrakeSmart Operation-Hydraulic or Electric Applications:

• READS brake line fluid pressure for smoothest & best modulation.

• SIXTEEN gain settings for finer adjustment of system current.

• MANUAL override allows finger application of trailer brakes.

• ANTI-LOCK braking option.

• INTEGRATED self diagnostics.

• LOAD proportional braking.

• PROVIDES graphical picture through a vacuum fluorescent display.

• CONSISTENTLY matches tow vehicle & trailer braking requirements.

"I love mine. Have tried the top brands and haven't found one with a faster reaction. Techonsha in the Ford Super Duty activates with the trucks hydraulic brake pressure like Brakesmart, but isn't as fast and under 12 mph, it automatically turns down the gain, so on slow high grade mountain situations, it's a pain. The new one offered by GM in the GMT-900 platform HD2500/3500 is all electronic make by Continental, which makes most of the Electronic Stability Controls for autos. The hand control is on the left side on GM, hard for me to get used to but the gain readout is in the dash which I like. Prodigy and the Valley Odyssey are good controllers but still not as fast at BrakeSmart."