Air Pump / Air Filter
Type: component
PROBLEM
Tires go flat and parking lot air is gross and there are two separate machines for this and neither is ever working.
SOLUTION
The Air Pump / Air Filter is the signature dual-function module of the Truck Pot and the component that makes people stop and ask what that thing is. On the pump side it is a 150 PSI compressor with a digital pressure gauge and a standard Schrader valve hose long enough to reach all four tires on a commercial truck without moving the hose between wheels, with a preset mode that fills to a target PSI and stops automatically so the driver does not have to crouch in the dark holding a gauge. On the filter side it is a three-stage HEPA-rated air purification unit drawing from ambient lot air — diesel particulates, brake dust, asphalt off-gassing, whatever a parking lot is made of at 2am — and exhausting cleaned air at breathing height through a louvered outlet on the front face of the unit. Both functions operate simultaneously off the same intake manifold. The pump pressurizes the air path for tire filling. The filter runs the same air through the media stack and exhausts it into the ambient environment. One machine. One plug. Two things fixed. The unit also smells faintly of pine because the carbon stage is pine-derived activated charcoal and this was not a decision made by the engineering team.