Making installations easier and faster; that’s what the TSE Brakes welded clevis chambers are all about.

TSE Brakes is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by Marmon Highway Technologies (MHT), effective September 15, 2008. Marmon Highway Technologies is a Berkshire Hathaway company (better known by its chief, Warren Buffet), and is comprised of leading suppliers serving the highway transportation industry.

TSE is pleased to recognize Frito Lay, as a TSE Brakes National Fleet Partner that chooses the fully sealed TSE OMNIBRAKE for its Kentucky Trailer orders.

After more than 50 years as founder and CEO of TSE Brakes Inc., Ted Smith has embraced his new role as consultant to the business. The company thanks Ted for his leadership and inspiration over these 50+ years and is pleased to tell his story of the company he founded in his own words below:

During the late 1950’s, with less than $500 in his pocket Ted purchased a new GMC pick up truck, with no cash down, arranged for $10,000 worth of truck parts on credit, and began selling up and down the West Coast of the U.S. as a one man company. Today the company designs tests manufactures and distributes high quality actuators globally. It may have seemed an odd combo selling brakes during the week and going full out in the air for the Cal Air National Guard when he was not working, but not to Ted.