Michelin Americas Truck Tires has introduced MICHELIN Auto Inflate. It is an easy, wheel-mounted tire-management solution that allows fleets to automatically maintain optimal tire pressure.
Leaky valve stems, extreme temperature changes and human error can all lead to underinflated tires and that results in costly downtime.
MICHELIN Auto Inflate, powered by Halo in association with Aperia Technologies can save fleets an estimated $2,400 per tractor-trailer annually1 by reducing tire-related downtime events, extending tire life, improving fuel economy and increasing safety.
Michelin Americas Truck Tires, marketing vice president, Adam Murphy said: "MICHELIN Auto Inflate is simple, reliable and good for business."
"Due to a number of complicated factors that cause tire pressures to change day-to-day and hour-to-hour, maintaining optimal tire pressure is nearly impossible to achieve manually.
"MICHELIN Auto Inflate, using Aperia's Halo device, provides an immediate payback for one of fleets' biggest assets by eliminating complexity and automatically managing air pressure in the tires that keep their trucks rolling."
Aperia, chief executive officer, Josh Carter said: "Michelin and Aperia chose to collaborate on MICHELIN Auto Inflate because of our mutual commitment to bring innovative products and service solutions to fleets with the goal of maximizing uptime."
"MICHELIN Auto Inflate, powered by Halo, provides fleets the first simple, reliable, full-vehicle solution to the complex problem of optimal tire pressure management."
MICHELIN Auto Inflate utilizes automatic tire inflation technology to maintain the pressure on drive and trailer tires.
Easy to retrofit on existing vehicles or as an add-on to new equipment, the device works with both duals and wide-base single tires.
The compact, self-powered pump can be mounted to the hub in 10 minutes using standard tools, no axle drilling required2. With each wheel rotation, the device monitors and adjusts for low air pressure.