How do you thump your tires?

I have so many apps and never even glanced at any of them.Phone text and online is all I need.That's what I mainly use my phone for. My laptop when I'm using free wify.Here I don't have free wify.I just figured out the Twitter thingy two days ago.don't know why it's called Twitter.

 

I carry a gauge and a 50 ft air hose but find it easy to hit the tire check lane at the fuel island at Loves about once a week..I always have about 15 credits for free tire checks.
By the time I fuel,get receipt and hit the restroom the tire guy is done.....It saves my old knees airing up tires and it is free!
Air hoses at most truck stops are hard to find anymore...

 

Just press your thumb against the side of the tire, very accurate way of knowing if you have a low tire.

 

Using a big head rubber mallet one can tell if tire is below 80 psi when thumping.....or plus 100 psi

 

And here I thought I was the only one who used that method...

 

I also do the "valve stem spit test". Just to make sure a valve isn't hanging up after airing a tire up.

 

I love watching the moron truckers who have all supersingles go around thumping. Thumping is just meant to see if the tire is flat or going flat and needs further checking with a guage. But with supersingles, you don't need to thump it to know it is flat, same as a steer tire lol.

What you need, I saw this trucker with a full on gun belt with holsters for his 2 gauges, one digital and one analog, thermometer, same, on digital one analog. Now that's a prepared trucker right there.