Thank goodness someone got your attention when they did.
We have a DP and have been running TPMS's on it for at least 10 years. It has saved us twice. Once on the DP, once on the toad. We run them on the toads as well. Always have. When you're driving the toad, you know immediately when something is wrong with a tire, but driving up front in the big rig, you can't see the tires and, as you found out, have no idea if a tire is going down.
May very easily have picked up something in the roadway that caused the tire to go down. One time as I was headed for the off ramp on an interstate, laying in the path was a mud flap hanger off a semi. Because I had already moved right into the deacceleration lane, I had cars that had moved up beside me and I could not move far enough to avoid it, so I straddled it with the motorhome. Thought I was home free, but in a few seconds, the TPMS went off indicating a catastrophic failure. Yep, I had run over the edge of that hanger with the toad and I had an instant flat. As it was, there was a truck stop right there at the exit ramp so we drove slowly into the lot and called our road service.
I believe it's just as important to have them on the toad as well as the motorhome.
Glad you were alerted!
Dale
