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 sometime
