Trailer Air Gauge

TRAILER AIR GAUGE

SET THE NEW STANDARD! 

TRAILER AIR SUPPLY RISK MANAGEMENT (NEW ZEALAND)

Your new Trailer air gauge and its practical steps provide the legally required Standard operating procedure for checking your trailer air systems pre-trip.

SAFELY PRE TRIP TEST AND MONITOR ANY TRAILER AIR BRAKE SYSTEM.

Even if you’re alone and have no wheel chocks within minutes you can safely pre-trip any trailer you choose to tow to a level that exceeds most workshop and land transport safety inspections. Once you have used your Trailer Air Gauge to conduct your Pre-Trip you are continuously protected against all possible trailer brake air supply problems. Remember your trailer air supply line is the single most important brake line in your unit.

WARNS OF FAULTY OR INCORRECTLY SET TRAILER PARK BRAKE VALVE

If the automatic trailer parking system fails your Trailer Air Gauge will vigorously warn the driver. This can prevent a costly roll away situation and means the truck can be safely operated even with the intermittent defect because the operator is warned they can manually correct the problem on the spot.

EARLY WARNING OF AIR LEAKS FROM TRAILER EMERGENCY BRAKE CIRCUIT

Your Trailer Air Gauge will pre warn you when a hose is starting to leak, so you can get it fixed at your convenience and at a minimal cost. (95% of air leaks from trailer brakes go completely un-noticed for a number of days). In this period the trailers pressure protection valves close and trailers are often towed with no service brakes. In most cases the only time you notice something is wrong when you need to stop suddenly, or you flat spot a set of tires, or burn out your emergency brakes. Cooking a set of wheel end components or flat spotting eight tires can easily cost over a thousand per wheel.

WARNS OF CLOSED TRACTOR PROTECTION [red valve not charged]

The operator is vigorously warned “Trailer air supply low!”   This prompts them to charge their trailer supply line correcting the problem immediately. Trailers are often towed with the trailer supply valve in the closed position. When this happens the trailer yard valve does not automatically reset, this means even with a brand new unit that has no faults whatsoever the trailer service, parking and emergency brakes will not work at all. After a crash the trailer push pull valves will almost always reset. These accidents are rarely ever correctly diagnosed and this has been demonstrated by the lack of understanding and awareness of this hazard.

SIMPLICITY

Your new Trailer air gauge has no additional wiring to the trailer and is guaranteed to work even if your trailer EBS plug and ABS light has failed. Most drivers and even experienced mechanics have trouble understanding the various functions and or malfunctions of our trailer air supply systems. Awareness and attempts to eliminate this hazard have been well demonstrated over the years by the use of different coloured/shaped knobs, warning labels, safety latches, covers, and a large amount of poor training material. The bottom line is, Heavy vehicle brakes are one of the single most important safety devices on our roads, we shouldn’t need to be an expert on them, We just need to be warned before things go wrong.

EARLY WARNING OF AIR LEAKS

Your Trailer Air Gauge will warn you of a significant air leak anywhere in the trailer brake supply system well before the trucks low air buzzer. Also, well before the emergency system activates the trailer spring brakes and causes damage or an unsafe situation.

Most trucks will not even detect a complete failure of the trailer brake supply hose especially if you are using your engine brake at the correct revs in mountainous terrain. Most of us have experienced trailer brake drag and this only happens in some cases when the air leak is very severe, for some reason we never questionwhy the trucks brake warning devices didn’t warn us first?

DIAGNOSTIC QUALITIES 

The Trailer Air Gauge will not activate if the trucks compressor fails or the truck has a major air leak. Your Trailer Air Gauge will only pick up faults in the trailer air system so you can easily locate and fix that leak as soon as it develops at your convenience. Air Hoses don’t rub through at the motel while you’re parked but .......How many times has a driver rang at 3 am and said my low air buzzer won’t go off, or my brakes won’t release.  Air leaks in the trailer system are often only picked up in the morning when the trailer tanks are empty and the driver goes to leave. They have little chance of finding it when they are alone in the dark so this normally leads to the cost of an afterhour’s call out and an unproductive day. Remember your Trailer Air Gauge is checking your trailer to a level that exceeds most workshop and CVST inspections all day!

BLACK BOX DATA

Data includes history for park brake, trailer air supply status, trailer air consumption, driver display, pre trip inspections, average trip times and warm up periods for at least 5 days. There will be no guess work or confusion about what actually happened. Simply go back into your data and use reconstruction, to confirm your theories saving thousands of dollars in accident investigation. Or, simply assist in diagnosis and confirm or clarify a drivers complaint even if it was five days ago.

NON-REFLECTIVE AUTO-BRIGHT DRIVER DISPLAY

When you’re driving there’s no need to check your Trailer Air Gauge, you’re Trailer Air Gauge will “check you”. Even if you are not looking at your Trailer Air Gauge, its non-reflective auto brightening display insures you are alerted to any problems so your focus can remain on the road.

EASY TO RETROFIT

Simply dash mount, or place into a standard 2 inch gauge hole. Attach 2 wires and two D.O.T push to connect Tee air brake fittings. Gauges come with comprehensive fitting kits and instruction 

PEACE OF MIND, PRIDE AND ECONOMIC SECURITY

Your Trailer Air Gauge gives you peace of mind knowing your drivers and investments are well protected

The consequences of a preventable brake failure can turn an accident into a personal tragedy for all involved.

BE PROUD

YOU WILL BE SETTING THE NEW STANDARD FOR TRAILER AIR BRAKE SAFETY.