- Suitable
for all Types of trucks including Tip Trucks, Dump Trucks, 4x4,
All Terrain Buses, Coaches, Livestock Transport, Mining Trucks,
Concrete Trucks, Crane Trucks and Fertilizer Spreaders. Any
Truck that works off Highway, travels empty some of the time, or
works hard, needs CTI. Adjusting Tyre Pressure to suite the
conditions improves all aspects of transport, while reducing costs
and improving safety. It doesn't matter what truck you have!!
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- Central
Tyre Inflation puts you, the driver, in control of the most important
parts of your vehicle, the all important tyre contact patch.
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- Tyres
are simply a very flexible rubber donut with a tread on the outside.
Air pressure provides the shape, the rigidity, and supports the
load on the contact patch. The correct highway tyre patch size for
a Michelin XTE 11R22.5 is 427 sq cm or 68.3 sq inches. This contact
patch, about the same size as a big human foot, provides the best
highway traction, the best tyre life, and the best casing life,
along with the best compromise between ride quality and tyre stability.
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- On Highway,
any change of this footprint will reduce the tyre's ability to work,
for instance, increasing braking distance. With this single
tyre, 427 sq cm will support 2500kg (5500 lbs) at 7.5 bar, or 110
psi. If you only need to support 1250kgs (2750 lbs) per tyre,
then only 3.4 bar, or 50 psi is required, still making the same
427 sq cm. (Michelin) Any other pressure adversely affects braking
distance, tyre life, handling ability, and safety will be worse.
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- Pirelli
states, "A 20% over inflated tyre will wear 10% quicker."
Hendrickson states "20 psi over pressure can reduce tyre
life by 17%." What sort of contact patch would an
XTE have with 110 psi, and only carrying 1.2 tons? About half or
only 200 sq cm. Do you really want to be on the same road as an
empty truck with only half the rubber on the road?
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- Off
road (at slower speeds), less pressure and a bigger footprint is
more advantageous. Michelin, for instance, recommends that with
a 1700 kilo load (3740 lbs), only 3.1 bars (46 psi) should be used
on trucks at the lower speed. On sand or mud use, at 20 kmh
max, only 1.7 (25 psi) bar is required. As you can imagine, the
foot print gets much bigger, AND softer. More area equals more traction,
and the softer, more flexible footprint conforms and envelopes gravel,
rocks (in fact the terrain), further aiding traction, and minimizing
damage to both the tyre and the terrain.
- Because
the footprint is longer the pressure on the road is reduced, reducing
the thickness of road aggregate required to carry the load, reducing
the cost of roads and tracks.
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- Remember,
at the beginning, one job of the air pressure is to provide tyre
rigidity, which at speed is needed for directional stability.
This is substantially less important at lower speeds. Less
tyre pressure can provide numerous benefits. This is all win
win, on slower rough roads. More traction, better handling, better
braking, easier to drive etc. More flexibility means the tyre envelopes
stones, instead of standing on them, resulting in a 300% reduction
of cuts, stone bruises, punctures and other tyre damage .
And rocks don’t get caught between duals, as a rule.
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- This
added flexibility means tyres also flex torsionally. This
added torsional flexing reduces Drive Train loads by at least 30%.
The almost total elimination of pig rooting, and axle tramp, along
with 30% lower drive train loads, mean your entire drive train lasts
much longer. Much less fatigue loads, minimises breakage, cracks,
repairs, and the lost earning time of expensive maintenance.
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- Let
the air out of your basketball, and it won't bounce! Same thing
with tyres. In fact the impact to your suspension and truck from
hard tyres has been measured at up to 10 times higher than with
lower pressure tyres. No wonder high pressure tyres require more
suspension and brake maintenance, and axle and component cracks,
are considered normal in off road transport.
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- Lower
pressure tyres absorb all of the minor "static" from gravel
roads, and minimizes other bumps, significantly reducing the vibration
levels that the driver must endure. Constant vibration is a proven
health hazard. A smoother ride, with better handling, and better
predictability, minimizes driver fatigue, providing a safer and
more alert driver.
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- Hard
tyres damage our roads and tracks, Track friendly tyres, at lower
pressure, significantly reduce road maintenance, road damage, corrosions,
dust and silt runoff, all improving our environment. Longer lasting
tyres and cases mean less oil used in the first place, and less
useless tyres to get rid of.
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- The
traction and floatation enhancement can save money and make money
in other ways. The USA fire service tested a 4x4 F450 with conventional
pressure against a 4x2 with low pressure tyres. The 4x2 equalled
and bettered the 4x4 in some conditions.
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- A 6x4
prime mover (tractor) with CTI will outperform a 6x6 without.
- For
many jobs, lighter and cheaper trucks will do the job, whilst carrying
more paying payloads, at lower costs. WIN WIN WIN
- Expensive
floatation tyres, and/or duals simply aren't needed, as AIR CTI
can provide the same advantages at a much lower cost.
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- Logging
Trucks are simply throwing the tyres, truck, and safety out the
window. Major traction improvements make 6x4 better than 6x6,
reducing tyre costs by 30% to 80% while reducing truck wear and
tear, and track damage.
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- Tip
Trucks, Tankers, Stock Trucks, all travel empty half the time, on
severely over inflated tyres, wearing out tyres by 20% to 30%, and
hammering the truck and driver to death.
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- Four
Wheel Drives naturally go off Highway, but, most people simply don't
understand how important tyre pressure is. Most 4WD's have
far too much tyre pressure. With AIR CTI, tyre pressures can
be adjusted, to suit the load, to suit the weather, to suit the
road or track. On this Suzuki, Highway tyre pressures of 20psi
is plenty. Loaded up for the weekend we may use 25psi.
For gravel roads, 12psi is ideal. Traction, ride, braking,
and handling are vastly improved. On more difficult tracks,
mud, or sand, we regularily go down to 5psi. The traction
is AWESOME!!
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- Passenger
Coaches that operate off Highway are hammering their customers and
their expensive buses needlessly. Tyre problems, suspension
problems, cabin fatigue, are all minimized when tyres are used correctly.
And the ride improvement makes for happy customers.
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- Over
inflated tyres simply don't handle, and don't stop as well.
Jack-knifes and blowouts are virtually elimated. High vibration
levels damage human internal organs, and shake your valuable investment
to death. Correctly inflated tyres handle better, stop better,
are less stressful to driver and are safer.
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