John Deere wants to avoid right-to-repair legislation.
, John Deere CTO Jahmy Hindman argued that the company’s “committed to enabling customers to repair the products that they buy” and that customers can repair most of the issues on a piece of John Deere equipment:
There’s nothing that prohibits them from doing them. Their wrenches are the same size as our wrenches. That all works. If somebody wants to go repair a diesel engine in a tractor, they can tear it down and fix it. We make the service manuals available. We make the parts available, we make the how-to available for them to tear it down to the ground and build it back up again.
As part of the agreement, John Deere and the AFBF will meet “at least semi-annually” to evaluate how the equipment-maker’s addressing operational concerns and suggest updates to the memorandum of understanding, as well as discuss anything related to the right-to-repair movement, which has started to heat up across the US.
“Machinery and equipment and the products that our customers invest in are a large investment,” David Gilmore, John Deere’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, says in a statement. “And the opportunity for them to maximize the uptime of that equipment and minimize downtime is an important area of focus for our organization and for the industry.”
We’ll have to wait and see if John Deere actually holds up its end of the agreement or if the agreement will even last amidst a push for right-to-repair laws.
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