Truck drivers will have the ease of using this hickory wood stick to check air pressure in their tires. This tire thumper looks something like a sawed-off baseball bat but stained and smoothed for safety and beautiful shiny finish. It has grip tape on the handle with slots for perfect grip even for gloved hands. Drivers of big rigs, with a gazillion tires, don’t want to take the time to apply a pressure gauge to each one, so periodically you go around whacking each tire with your hickory stick and listening for the sound. Since it's made of hickory wood, if a tire is fully pressurized, the thumper makes a satisfying “thump’’ as it hits the rubber.