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Summer pavement and tire pressure
Summer is when fleets remember tires. Pavement radiates heat, loads do not get lighter, and a tire that was acceptable in April can be the tire everyone discusses in July. Pressure rises as the tire heats. A dual that was only slightly apart in the morning is a worse match after hours on hot asphalt, because the tire doing more work gets hotter and the gap feeds itself. Summer does not create a new product category. It makes low pressure, high pressure, and temperature show up in the same week.
The film already lists those three. The wireless transmitter on a dual equalizes pressure between the tires and monitors low and high pressure. The cabin display stores the date and time of a high-pressure problem and of a temperature problem, not only of a low tire. That is the summer tool: you are not only hunting leaks. You are also seeing the tire that climbed. The 104 PSI and 53°F reading in the film is one cool-looking moment on a screen. It is a bad example to quote as a summer target, because the film does not say the truck was crossing a desert and does not publish a seasonal chart. Leave the frame as a frame.
Safety in the heat is a truck that still drives balanced. Equalized duals share the load so one tire is not the summer casualty. Singles, including steer tires, still need pressure maintained. A soft steer tire on hot pavement is a handling problem with less margin. Trailer positions 1 through 4 deserve the same attention as truck positions 1 through 6, because trailer tires sit in the heat at a dock with no airflow and then run.
Security is a time of day. Afternoon events and dawn events are different maintenance stories. A stored date and time stops the shop from treating every summer tire as “probably the heat” with no position. The handheld’s Pre-trip control is the start of the hot day. The cab is the rest of it. The repeater stays in the steering-axle wheel so the path does not change with the season.
Value is tires that survive July without a special program of guesswork. About forty minutes to fit the truck, about five minutes a sensor, trailer very similar. Existing hub bolts, curved fitting, straight fitting, optional chrome cover. The site claims an all-in-one package built in the USA. The film shows the hardware working wherever you go, which includes hot pavement. No savings percent is stated, so none is promised here.
Every truck and every trailer needs this before the hot months, for safety, security, and value. Tell us the season you dread and the number of units. Someone replies about your trucks. If the form fails, write customersupport@truckstpms.com. Your draft stays on the page.
Summer pavement punishes a dual that was "close enough" in May. Walk one combination at the end of a hot day and compare the stored events with what a gauge says after the tires cool overnight. You want to see whether the afternoon high came back down, and whether the two tires in each dual came down together. If one tire is still ahead of its mate in the morning, equalization did not happen and the hoses need a look before the next heat. Drivers on desert or southern lanes should treat a temperature time in the afternoon as a planned stop, the way they already treat a low fuel light. The stop is cheaper than the casing. Mention the states you run if you write to us. A reply about your trucks is more useful when it knows you are fighting July, not a generic diagram.
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