**Exhibit 33.1**

 

**John Deere Capital Corporation’s Report on Assessment of Compliance with**

**SEC Regulation AB Servicing Criteria**

 

The undersigned has caused an assessment to be made of John Deere Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries’ compliance with the servicing criteria set forth in Regulation AB.

 

John Deere Capital Corporation (the “Asserting Party”) is responsible for assessing compliance as of October 28, 2018 and for the period ending October 28, 2018 (the “Reporting Period”) with the servicing criteria set forth Item 1122(d) of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation AB, excluding criteria in Items 1122(d)(1)(iii) pertaining to maintaining a back-up servicer, (d)(1)(iv) requirements of a fidelity bond and errors and omissions insurance, (d)(2)(vi) safeguarding of checks, (d)(2)(ii) and (d)(3)(ii) – (iv) pertaining to the actual disbursement or remittance of funds to investors (which disbursement is the responsibility of a different party participating in the servicing function), and (d)(4)(ix) – (xiii) and (xv), which the Asserting Party has concluded are not applicable to the servicing activities it and its subsidiaries perform with respect to the asset-backed securities transactions covered by this report (the “Applicable Servicing Criteria”).  The transactions covered by this report include the asset-backed securities transactions for which the Asserting Party served as servicer and any of its subsidiaries served as sub-servicer that are backed by the same asset type backing the asset backed securities that were completed after January 1, 2006 (being, the John Deere Owner Trust 2016 securities issued March 2, 2016, the John Deere Owner Trust 2016-B securities issued July 27, 2016, the John Deere Owner Trust 2017 securities issued March 2, 2017, the John Deere Owner Trust 2017-B securities issued July 18, 2017, the John Deere Owner Trust 2018 securities issued February 28, 2018, and the John Deere Owner Trust 2018-B securities issued July 25, 2018) and registered with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Platform”).

 

The Asserting Party has assessed its and its subsidiaries’ compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of October 28, 2018 and for the period October 30, 2017 to October 28, 2018 and has concluded that the Asserting Party and its subsidiaries have complied, in all material respects, with the Applicable Servicing Criteria with respect to the Platform taken as a whole.

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, has issued an attestation report on the undersigned’s assessment of compliance with the Applicable Servicing Criteria as of October 28, 2018, and for the Reporting Period as set forth in this assessment.

 

 

 
|                          | John Deere Capital   Corporation |
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| Date: January 11,   2019 | By:                              | */s/Cory J. Reed* |   |
|                          |                             | Cory J. Reed |
|                          |                             | President |

 

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