It’s been a year!

We’ve been listening to you and have made improvements based on your feedback. DPA Inspect version 2.1 is now available (https://www.truck-connect.com/) and better than ever. You must download v2.1 in order to continue to run tests.

We want to thank all of our Truck-Connect customers for using DPA Inspect for your CARB Clean Truck Check program compliance software.

As a special thank you, we are going to continue with free shipping until November 02, 2025.

Please give us a Google review, tell your friends and colleagues and order another kit to expand your business before November.

Thank you from the DG Technologies Truck-Connect Team!

DG Technologies Price Announcement

DG Technologies is announcing a price adjustment for our products that is effective October 01, 2025.

We have brought you value and innovation over the last several years while doing everything we could to absorb the rising cost of material, energy, transportation and critical electronics. This adjustment is necessary to keep pace with those market conditions.

This decision was not made lightly. This adjustment is essential for us to continue to provide you with the level of expert support we always have and continue to provide the latest in secure technology you need to thrive in your business. This will also allow us to keep the bar high in our research, development, innovation and Technical Support, keeping pace with amazing new technological changes taking place in the transportation industry.

Our goal is to continue to offer our customers leading-edge technology from DG Technologies, the #1 company in secure diagnostics and reprogramming, while offering technical support that is second to none in our industry.

All of us at DG Technologies look forward to serving you with your engineering, diagnostic and reprogramming needs and we appreciate your business and understanding. If you would like further details you may contact us at 1-248-888-2000 or view our products and pricing at https://www.dgtech.com/shop/.

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Dearborn Group, Inc.
33604 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
1 (248) 888-2000
sales@dgtech.com

General Contact:

Mr. John McNelis
Sales and Marketing Manager
jmcnelis@dgtech.com

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Heavy-Duty Protocol Training
October 2nd & 3rd, 2025
At DG Technologies in Farmington Hills, MI

Join us for a two-day, hands-on training course designed for engineers, and industry professionals who want to strengthen their understanding of vehicle protocols, CAN development and testing, and other vehicle network fundamentals. Taught by industry leader and DG Technologies owner and founder Mark Zachos. The primary focus for your learning objectives will be to gain a thorough understanding of heavy-duty vehicle communication networks that power all trucks and equipment on the road today.

Over the course of two days, participants will:

• Build knowledge of vehicle networking history, terminology and key standards
• Gain hands-on experience with J1708/J1587, J1939, CAN, CAN FD and LIN
• Learn how to troubleshoot physical and data link layers for developing and testing calibrations
• Explore transport/diagnostic layer concepts and vehicle cybersecurity
• Working with industry standard software

Whether you’re new to heavy-duty protocols or looking to bolster your existing engineering knowledge, this course provides the technical insight and hands-on exercises you need to confidently work with vehicle networks.

LOCATION:
DG Technologies
33604 W 8 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI

DATES:
October 2nd and October 3rd (Two day course)

Email sales@dgtech.com or call (248) 888-2000 for a quote

Seats are limited, reserve your spot today!

DG Technologies at TMC Fall 2025 & National Technician Skills Competitions

DG Technologies at TMC Fall 2025 & National Technician Skills Competitions
Raleigh, NC | September 14th-18th

DG Technologies will be at the TMC Fall Meeting & National Technician Skills Competitions on September 14th through the 18th in Raleigh, North Carolina.

President & Founder Mark Zachos will once again serve as Chairman of the Cybersecurity Test Station (PT8 & FT8), competitors will face cyber hacking scenarios and hands-on testing.

“It’s a privilege to volunteer for the TMC skills competition as the Cybersecurity Test Station Chairman and participate in the industry standards Study Groups as the Cybersecurity Task Force Chairman to help bring new levels of efficiency to the trucking community.” Zachos said about the event, “ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council adds tremendous value and we encourage everyone to get involved.”

DG Technologies is proud to sponsor the Vehicle Cybersecurity Station, we look forward to not only attending, teaching and sponsoring, but also donating a prize to the winners. The SuperTech and FutureTech winners will each receive a 1-year subscription to DPA Health software (retail value of $2000!) along with a special, one of a kind DPA XL diagnostic tool, valued at over $820.

We are committed to help our customers ‘Protect Your Uptime’, and many of our expert staff members participate throughout the year in Cybersecurity panels, committees and events to help technicians, fleets and the entire industry move forward securely.

For further information:

Dearborn Group, Inc.
33604 West Eight Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
1 (248) 888-2000
sales@dgtech.com

General Contact:

Mr. John McNelis
Sales and Marketing Manager
jmcnelis@dgtech.com

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DPA Health Version 1.7: Now Available from DG Technologies Truck-Connect

DG Technologies, the leader in Secure Diagnostics, has released a new DPA Health update, version 1.7, designed specifically for Heavy Duty vehicle prognostics using the DPA XL. Built to provide essential health information for vehicles’ battery, starter and alternator systems, DPA Health helps you save money in the shop and Protects Your Uptime.

Some new features of version 1.7 include:

• Prioritized J1939 responses for Engine Hours and Odometer on mixed-mode vehicles (J1939/ISO15765)
• Improved conversion accuracy for more reliable data readings
• Updated scaling to support odometer readings
• Better data consistency and improved support across a wide range of heavy-duty applications
• Performance improvements, enhancements and bug fixes

To download version 1.7, log in to your Truck-Connect portal account at www.truck-connect.com, click your username in the upper right corner, and select Downloads from the drop-down menu.

All DG Technologies tools, such as the DPA XL, come complete with CyberGuard protection, found on our store at www.dgtech.com/shop. We ensure that all of our tools and software stay up to date, it is recommended to bookmark or save not only the Truck-Connect portal and downloads screen for software updates, but also our downloads page at www.dgtech.com/downloads to keep all of your tools up to date as well.

Contact:
John McNelis,
DG Technologies Sales and Marketing Manager,
248-888-2000,
sales@dgtech.com 

Technical Support:
techsupp@dgtech.com
(248) 888-2000 

DG Technologies
www.dgtech.com
33604 W Eight Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
(248) 888-2000 

DG Technologies to Spotlight New Products at TMC’s Spring Meeting 

FARMINGTON HILLS, MICH., March 04, 2025 – The DG Technologies team is excited to head to Nashville next week to introduce the latest in its line of secure diagnostic fleet tools at TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting. 

The company’s new DPA XL PRO device and new DG Diagnostics (DGD) PRO enhanced diagnostic software feature DoIP for faster Wi-Fi remote diagnostics and reprogramming, J1979-2 and J1979-3 BEV and ZEV trucks as well as all heavy-duty gas, diesel and hybrid vehicles. 

DG Technologies, which specializes in vehicle network engineering, fleet cybersecurity and diagnostic and reprogramming tools, is a longtime participant in the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Technology and Maintenance Council’s (TMC) annual event, held this year from March 10 to 13 at Nashville’s Music City Center. 

The DPA XL PRO and DGD PRO contain built-in CyberGuard technology and use Diagnostic over Internet Protocol (DoIP), a modern standard for vehicle diagnostics that facilitates communication over a network. The DPA XL PRO device also works with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and supports J1979-2, J1979-3, J1939, ISO15765, J1979 classic and J1587/J1708.  

The new DGD PRO software will be introduced on the DG Technologies’ Truck-Connect portal, a secure online dashboard that offers all of DG’s advanced software applications in one place for fleet compliance, predictive maintenance of trucks’ electrical charging systems and even an Android mobile app. The web portal houses all of DG Technologies’ and partner Synercon Technologies’ cloud-based applications and products on one easy-to-navigate site, including DPA Inspect, DPA Health, DPA Mobile and DGD PRO, which each work with DG’s DPA devices to provide fleet analytics, mobile diagnostics and crash investigation data.  

To find out more about the new DPA XL PRO hardware and DGD PRO software, DG’s Truck-Connect dashboard and more ways to Protect Your Uptime stop by and see the DG team at booth #1735 at TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting. 

Contact: John McNelis, DG Technologies Sales and Marketing Manager, 248-888-2000, sales@dgtech.com 

For more information on DG Technologies’ new DPA Inspect software and its CARB-approved hardware and software kits for Clean Truck Check, visit www.dpainspect.truck-connect.com.  

Technical Support:
techsupp@dgtech.com
(248) 888-2000 

DG Technologies
www.dgtech.com
33604 W Eight Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48335
(248) 888-2000 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DG Technologies to Showcase Clean Truck Check Tools at TMC in Nashville

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Jan. 27, 2025 – Secure vehicle diagnostics leader DG Technologies is gearing up to spotlight its expanded Truck-Connect series of fleet analysis tools at TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting this March in Nashville, Tenn.

This year, as an exhibitor at booth #1735, the Detroit-area company will feature its new DPA Inspect (www.dpainspect.truck-connect.com), an application certified last fall by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for use in the state’s Clean Truck Check program.

DG Technologies, which specializes in vehicle network engineering, fleet cybersecurity and diagnostics and reprogramming tools, is a longtime participant in the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) Technology and Maintenance Council’s (TMC) annual event, which will take place this year from March 10 to 13 at Nashville’s Music City Center.

DPA Inspect software works with DG Technologies’ long-trusted DPA XL and DPA 5 PRO diagnostic and reprogramming devices to extract and encrypt on-board diagnostic (OBD) data from trucks and send the information directly to CARB for a pass/fail determination.

Compliance testing for CARB’s Clean Truck Check started last fall and will involve regular testing of most non-gasoline heavy-duty vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) over 14,000 pounds that operate on public roads and highways in California.

DG’s approved DPA Inspect software and DPA devices went through extensive testing to be certified and are permitted for use as part of Clean Truck Check only by technicians who are credentialed through CARB’s no-cost tester training course and have received a Tester ID.

Truck-Connect is a web portal that houses a customer dashboard and all of DG Technologies’ and partner Synercon Technologies’ cloud-based applications and products, including DPA Inspect, DPA Health, DPA Mobile and DPA Diagnostics, that work with DG’s DPA devices to provide predictive fleet analytics, mobile diagnostics, crash investigation data and utilization optimization.

Contact:

John McNelis, DG Technologies Sales and Marketing Manager, (248) 888-2000, sales@dgtech.com

For more information on DG Technologies’ new DPA Inspect software and its CARB-approved hardware and software kits for Clean Truck Check, visit https://www.truck-connect.com/.

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DPA Inspect CARB Compliance: Purchasing Guide from DG Technologies’ Truck-Connect

https://dpainspect.truck-connect.com/

DPA Inspect makes it easy for technicians to determine the health of a vehicle’s emissions control system by performing and submitting the inspection and maintenance testing required for CARB Clean Truck Check compliance using our secure software and trusted DPA diagnostics tools.

In this tutorial, we take you through the process of purchasing DPA Inspect or any DPA Inspect bundle offered.

DPA Inspect and DPA XL are your approved inspection tools for CARB Clean Truck Check success.

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PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: VSI NxGen from DG Technologies

According to Vehicle Service Pros’ 2023 Aftermarket Profile on Diagnostics, 44 percent of auto shop owners and technicians offered reflashing or reprogramming services. Of those who didn’t, 17 percent said they would but they don’t own the equipment for it.

That’s where DG Technologies’ VSI NxGen comes in.

The VSI NxGen, DG’s latest vehicle standard interface offers users car manufacturer software compatibility to give automotive technicians dealer-level capabilities to reprogram cars. Compared to bringing in mobile programming servicers or towing the vehicle to a dealer, the VSI NxGen is simple, secure and saves time. And to maintain your own car, this is a fun and easy tool to use. It is the latest and most cybersecure device, offering technicians and vehicle security professionals ECU programming, ADAS calibration, diagnostics and security access with J2534-1/-2 compliance.

Trusted by OEMs, the VSI NxGen has been tested and used since it came out in 2020, as the latest version of our VSI brand. This DG Technologies tool allows customers to run vehicle diagnostics, module programming, ADAS calibration, key programming, and recording and analyzing vehicle network data through DG Diagnostics. The secure connection from PC to vehicle through our USB connection is protected by CyberGuard through an embedded hardware security module.

These days, access to the latest SAE J2534-compliant device is essential for auto repair. In 1996, many engine and transmission ECUs began requiring software updates and programming, and now many electronically controlled parts require periodic software updates and programming upon installation. It was as that time that DG Technologies came on the scene as a leader in creating the necessary tools to keep up with advancements in the industry. Recent Right to Repair legislation has now brought access to software-driven ECU programming, vehicle diagnostics, repair information and vehicle security access to shops and technicians. With the VSI NxGen, advanced repair and revenue opportunities are now available to everyone.

The VSI NxGen is SAE J2534-compliant. It has four independent CAN channels, and is both CAN FD and FT CAN capable. It meets mandated emission-related programming for all vehicle makes and models.

If you are in the business, the return on investment and benefits of controlling the entire process to serve your customers are clear. Make your shop stand out as the local expert with the best repair turnaround time with DG Technologies’ VSI NxGen.

Check out the VSI NxGen on YouTube.

For more information on the VSI NxGen, and the accessories it may ship with, visit https://www.dgtech.com/vsi-nxgen .

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John McNelis
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(248) 888-2000
33604 W Eight Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48335 

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FRANKENMUTH, Mich. April 5, 2024 – DG Technologies product specialist and education coordinator Mark Pope was in Frankenmuth in February and awarded the winning mid-Michigan school with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Cup.

The cup is presented each year at the SAE Mid-Michigan’s National Engineers Week Annual Banquet and Meeting to the team that places highest in the SAE Collegiate Chapter Project Presentation Competition at the annual meeting. The event’s competition is judged based on the quality of the oral presentation of the teams’ “Design Series” projects, with top honors this year going to Saginaw Valley State University.

Attendees and judges saw presentations by Central Michigan and Kettering universities’ teams for their BAJA SAE Series, in which each team designed and built a prototype of an all-weather, rugged, single-seat, off road recreational vehicle for competition this fall. Students from Central Michigan, Kettering and Saginaw Valley State universities gave presentations on their work in the Formula SAE Series, for which they conceived, designed, fabricated and developed small formula-style vehicles for competition this May. And students from Kettering presented on their participation, in partnership with General Motors, for the AutoDrive Challenge, in which they developed a full autonomous driving passenger vehicle to navigate an urban driving course this summer.

“They actually use what they learn in the classroom to build these vehicles,” Pope said of the student competitors. Pope, one of many at DG Technologies who volunteers time and expertise with SAE, organized and presided over the banquet meeting this year.

Pope noted that companies hire students from these competitions because they know the students already have training and experience. “They know they can hit the ground running,” he said.

DG Technologies works in association with many domestic and foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and tier 1 and 2 suppliers to the automotive, heavy-duty, agriculture, off-road, cybersecurity, military and recreational vehicle transportation markets and has a long affiliation with SAE International, the American Trucking Association’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and tier 1 and 2 supplier organizations. The company is a leading provider of secure aftermarket diagnostic products, engineering development tools and heavy-duty vehicle digital forensics. In 2019, DG Technologies’ parent company, the Dearborn Group Inc., acquired Synercon Technologies, which specializes in vehicle crash data extraction. Zachos runs both companies from his offices in Farmington Hills, Mich.

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John McNelis
sales@dgtech.com
(248) 888-2000
33604 W Eight Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48335 

Technical Support:
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(248) 888-2000 

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