Most contractors wouldn’t mind increasing their vehicle’s gas mileage, extending the life cycle of expensive tires, improving driving safety and receiving warnings about certain hard-to-access parts that may need repair. They can do just that in their trucks and wheeled equipment with small, innocuous and relatively inexpensive devices called tire pressure monitors.Since 2008, the federal government has mandated all cars and light trucks be equipped with tire pressure monitoring systems, which utilize small, pressure-activated sensors to transmit both tire pressure and temperature to a dashboard-mounted display panel. And there’s talk that all commercial vehicles may be required to use them
