Checking Hazmat Tire Pressure.

For hazmat you are supposed to check all tires pressure with a gauge every time you stop. How many of us actually do this? I would spend half my day just checking tire pressures as I typically make 4+ stops per day. I do check them once a week with a gauge. And thump them every morning on my pre trip. But its pretty obvious that I cant spend half my workday each day checking tire pressures 4-5 times a day. My boss would go through the roof.

Phil

For hazmatyou are supposed to check all tires pressure with a gauge every time you stop. How many of us actually do this? I would spend half my day just checking tire pressures as I typically make 4+ stops per day. I do check them once a week with a gauge. And thump them every morning on my pre trip. But its pretty obvious that I cant spend half my workday each day checking tire pressures 4-5 times a day. My boss would go through the roof.

Phil

I always wondered what that was like in the "real" world. It seems that my recent CDL training was so ....... "unreal".

Thanks for the info!

I've nailed a dozen hazmat loads and never actually got on my knees to check the psi. My trailer tires are automatically inflated to the proper psi when I push in my red knob. And I can see the psi on all the tires on my tractor on an LCD screen on my dashboard.

But if I didn't have this technology, I would check the psi before picking the hazmat load up, and maybe once in the middle of my shift. But I definitely without check it on every stop especially if I had 4 stops.

I drive hazmat everyday, I used to check every morning. After a few weeks the tires always looked the same, now I just kick for the thump and check if they look different (under inflated)