![]() ![]() Insiders at the EPA said it was possible, and they’d be willing to talk to industry about it. Why not allow Cummins engines to be reprogrammed in the same way for RVs? Once the shortage of microchips that’s responsible for so many RVers being sidelined is resolved, fix the monitors, and go back to the old programming. The solution? Since the EPA recognizes that emergency vehicles like fire trucks and ambulances must not be throttled back because of a DEF monitoring system malfunction, they allow industry to program that same monitoring system software to warn – but not de-rate an engine – if the DEF system reports a problem. ![]() But when asked about a potential short-term solution to the problem, we got the same response back this week that we did in July. ![]() He emailed us telling us about you: “I am sure there are some I have missed.” He promised to reach out to all. We asked Cummins’ Jon Mills, the contact man, about this. ![]() They said if we’d publish a single contact person for their outfit, he’d see to it that your concerns would be forwarded “appropriately.” Some readers complained they’d sent an email and never got a response. Apparently that struck a nerve: Within days Cummins begged us to pull those names and addresses. In it, we published the names of top Cummins executives and their email addresses. At the end of July we posted an article that suggested this same approach. It’s also time for us to eat a little crow. And one more man who may not know your problems – yet!. ![]()
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