Landstar needs to hook up EOBR/95 pro star

If you have a 12.7 Detroit, it will hook right up to an EOBR. It is an electronic motor. Mechanical motors don't have ECM's. Landstar doesn't care about the age of your truck, only that it passes inspection, and if you're new, that an EOBR can be hooked up.

 

From my understanding, (i could be missinformed) Qualcome (the company that land star uses) does not support mechanical motors. There are other elog systems that may work, but Qualcome is not one of them. The problem is, it needs to know your speed, parking brake position, rpm etc. If you just went by gps alone it could acidently think ur moving when your not. Qualcome uses both truck data and GPS. The only way this would be possible is to wire in a fake ECM that reads data from varrious gauges, but i dont know of one.

 

JJ Keller has one in development. I don't know if it's approved yet. They were pushing it at a safety director meeting.

If you have the 12.7 Detroit from 95 you do have a ECM. It's primitive but it's there and if it can be read for error codes there are EBROs that can be hooked up to it.

 

Way less than 1% of trucks that will require an EOBR are mechanical. They may be a thousandaire.

 

There is already a part on the market that can be bought for mechanical motors for electronic speedometers. That would fix the problem of know if the truck is moving or not. I still don't have a clear understanding as to why the EOBR cannot be hooked up to a mechanical motor.

 

Depending on the Q-com version and exactly which software Landstar wants to run, your older detroit
motor may not support the the system.

If your motor is the DDEC-I version it could be problematic. If it is running DDEC-II or DDEC-III then there would be no problems.

This has to due with the available memory in the different DDEC systems. The kind of good news is that any 1995 or newer DDEC-I is up gradeable to a DDEC-II or DDEC-III for approx. $700-$1200.

I just read about this exact same thing with the different DDEC systems in Landline magazines mechanics coloum.

 

I've posted this before, but will be glad to do so again. My son ran for landstar and he has a 425 mechanical cat. The freebie they hand out will not work on a mechanical, however, the 110 will work on your mechanical. Rush Peterbilt in Tye Texas hooked it up. The unit from landstar cost $1500 and it took about a $1000 for Rush to hook it up. No electronics were put in the truck.