Cannot comply with ELD mandate in New model Volvo trucks. Incorrect data port .. obd2 not round !!!

That is incorrect... Volvo cannot guarantee that port for an ELD... some protocols are missing that the ELD's require... Call Volvo. they will confirm..

Even if you get the adapter, you are still missing some protocols.

This is for the ODB2

 

Curious as to why Volvo is building something irregular to gooberment compliance .

 

It's their truck. Government does not mandate the port. Only the requirements. Volvo does comply via the spider cable

 

Dude, I don't know who you guys talked to but Volvo has to use the same protocols and the same mid/pids for emission diagnostics, there standards haven't changed, the only thing that has was done was to move it under the obd general specs. It still uses the j1939 protocols, the same message identifiers (mid), and the same parameter identifiers (pid) that are used to fulfill the eld requirements to pull the info from the ecm and the emissions regulations by the Feds.

Volvo has additional pids to interface with their internal Volvo systems like their nav systems. Outside of that, it is all there.

By the way, Cummings also said the same thing. They can't guarantee the interface to the eld to work either, so can't Mack and others. Why? Because they have nothing to do with the engineering of the eld..

 

They do mandate the connection for emissions testing and diagnostic.

 

Since 1995

 

Mark, you do know that all "Not guaranteed" means is that it was never tested with that specific adapter, don't you? For someone in electronics support that should be second nature.
It's all marketing crap saying you need to buy our adapter, that's all it is.
There are people here, telling the op that the experience they personally have that they do not need RM's expensive crap.

Please leave the marketing speak at home and let the people with the actual experience answer the question.

 

I am not pushing RM's product.. what I am saying is the testing on the port it does not provide everything the ELD requires from the ECM... Volvo has added ports for this and the spider cable connects directly to them.

I am not marketing btw.

 

The standards are given for all trucks, Volvo like others comply with it. The eld only needs a small set of indicators to be polled from the ecm, the databus can provide them without proprietary software, this is the same on all trucks and the authors of the eld specs knew what they were doing.

The plug issue is easily solved, every manufacturer has to provide a data port, so an adapter has to be possible but I blame the eld manufacturers for not providing the right adaptor.