Freightliner Recalls 133,000 Work Trucks
Freightliner Corp. is recalling thousands of vocational and severe-service type trucks with air brakes made since 1991 to repair a faulty brake pin that the National Transportation Safety Board said contributed to a fatal accident.
According to the NTSB, the brake pin fractured, rendering the brakes inoperable.
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The Portland, Ore., truck maker announced the recall of 133,000 Business Class trucks Nov. 2, after NTSB Chairman James Hall said a faulty brake pin was the cause of a dump truck losing its primary braking capability in an accident that killed two people in Lincoln, Neb.
The recall does not involve over-the-road power units for tractor-trailers or school buses. Nor does it involve Freightliner’s subsidiaries Sterling Truck Co., Western Star and American LaFrance, which makes fire trucks.
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