Last minute option added to our trailer, tire inflation

By hanging out in truckstop drivers phone rooms watching the DAT screen and hogging a phone.
Also by paying $75 for a used tire (installed) after shredding a flat and running home and trading it for a new one and getting casing credit (sometimes).

 

Surely the system has check valves, or high-flow prevention valves, to keep a blown tire from sucking all the air from its neighbor and from the rest of the system.

Congratulations on the new wagon @Nahbrown .

 

See avatar, you young punks got an answer for everything, don't you? Most of OUR trailers had tubes, so yeah, you had best check them every hour or so. A good driver knew when a tire was low. In this day and age, it's worst case scenario, but honestly, flat tires were just part of the job, a job I doubt many of you could handle. Tubeless changed everything, for the better, I might add, but with tubeless, flat tires were almost eliminated. We just didn't need some machine telling us so. That, my friends, was the invention of the century, and don't you dare take it for granted. Can't blame you really, our generation created this new techie age, it just mushroomed into something we can't understand. Enjoy.
Where's all my old timer, tube-type, change a flat yourself buddies? Pushing daisies, that's where. We were REAL truckers, not button pushing screen watchers, good luck with the future.
Now, let's take a look see at the right side panel, and see what modern trucking blunders occurred with your fancy, shmancy inflation device working perfectly,,peace, y'all.

 

Nothing funnier than someone complaining about technology on the internet.

 

Irony, wichris, it's called irony,,,great when it works, but oh the panic when it doesn't and HUGE consequences. Don't think so? I believe it's how Rome fell,,,

 

Dude probably drives a car that would put Fred Flintstone to shame.

 

Here's my ride, COS,,,pfft,,

 

Bet that has quite a bit of electronics in it. LOL

 

You’re missing the point. It’s a tool to keep all tires inflated to the same pressure, even if there is a slow leak. And you’re blowing smoke if you try and say you can tell a 20psi difference with a hammer. Instead of damaging the tire by running it low it maintains pressure until you can get it fixed. It’s actually a simple system, more simple than that Jeep you’re driving. It’s a valve with a pressure regulator and a single light that comes on if there’s air moving in the system.

 

The most it has is the seat belt buzzer, and that's the way I likes it! No wait, it's got one of those highly sophistimicated "shift now" lights,,
Long FLD, see today, everything has to be exact, dead nuts, when in reality, you could run on a tire 15 or 20 pounds low for a year, it didn't need to be that exact, it's a truck tire, not the Space Shuttle( I realize that dates me) Back then, we didn't have radials, and a squatting outside, meant a low inside. And you thump enough tires, you can indeed tell if one is low. I think you folks are padding the inflation indicator guys, and I'm sorry, we just didn't see a need for it and by some miracle, freight got delivered,,.