TMC Deals With California on ‘Clean Truck Check’

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A contingent of Technology & Maintenance Council member experts and staff from fleets and technol­ogy suppliers joined with representatives of the California Trucking Association and American Trucking Associations in a meeting with the California Air Resources Board in January to discuss ways of implementing a fleet-preferred method for complying with CARB’s Heavy-Duty Inspection and Maintenance reporting under its Clean Truck Check requirements.

“Currently, CARB’s regulations only recognize data generated through the vehicle’s On-Board Diagnostic port as legally conforming to the regulation. That means fleets have to take a vehicle out of service to physically connect a diagnostic tool to the vehicle to comply, as opposed to using more cost-effective over-the-air telematics solutions. TMC’s RP 1226 offers a better solution,” said TMC Executive Director Robert Braswell.

TMC’s members have been communicating for several years that the OBD2 port is inadequate in heavy-duty commercial vehicle applications because most telematics service provider technologies do not principally rely upon OBD2 for the data source for generation of telematics reporting to fleets. Fleets also contend in a combination vehicle setting there is insufficient cybersecurity protection for the onboard CAN network via the SAE J1939 databus. F…