NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Noregon Systems, a vehicle diagnostics provider, has announced that it will launch next month its truck check-up program, a tool that will allow drivers to plug in for a quick check of their vehicle while fueling.
The tool will be unveiled next month at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, but Noregon Senior Vice President Greg Reimmuth was talking up the product at the annual Technology & Maintenance Council meeting Feb. 15. The device is to be installed at the fuel island at travel centers, especially travel centers that offer service, he said.
“It’s self-serve diagnostics with vehicle health on the back end,” Reimmuth said . “So the driver would pull up, plug into the diagnostic port while he’s fueling and the truck check-up kiosk would say, ‘Your vehicle’s healthy or it’s not healthy and here’s the recommended action on what to do with that truck if you buy the report.’ ”
Meanwhile at TMC, Noregon released its JPRO Commercial Vehicle Diagnostics 2015 v1, which adds to its current JPRO licenses expanded coverage of model years and diagnostic data for: Freightliner and Freightliner Cascadia body and chassis controllers; Detroit and Cummins engines; Ford, GM and Sprinter vehicles.
“At its core, the release of JPRO 2015 v1 focuses on the fact that technicians need to have the very latest component and model years of coverage,” Reimmuth said. “That is why we are committed to consistently updating JPRO, so it continues to lead the industry in total vehicle diagnostics.”
Noregon has done extensive in-shop evaluations and analysis with major fleets and dealers over the past five years and found that the overwhelming number of repairs do not require OEM software in order to fix, he said.
“So JPRO allows the technician to identify those 85%-of-the-time issues and fix them without the OEM software,” Reimmuth said.
