For years drivers have aired their grievances about being forced to pay for an item that is so abundantly free: Air.

Gone are the times when gas stations provided free air service to commuters through wallmounted hand-crank air pumps. Over time those same service stations realized the revenue potential in air, and the notion of free air vanished into thin air.

Now Conrad's Tire Express & Total Car Care is bringing back this convenience by introducing its Free Air Inflation Stations, available at all Conrad's locations throughout northeast Ohio.

While simple in concept, "Free Air" represents a $100,000 investment the company has made in retrofitting all 31 of its tire express and total car care centers with state-of-the-art, publicly accessible Inflation Station air pumps. It's Conrad's effort to make drivers aware of the benefits to maintaining properly inflated tires.

Read the full press release here.