Freightliner Cascadia. Published by Transport Canada as 2020444 on 18 September 2020. System: Brakes.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain trucks, the brake lights may stay on after the brake pedal is released.
Safety Risk:
Brake lights that stay on could cause other road users not to recognize when the truck is braking. This could increase the risk of a crash.
Corrective Actions:
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) will …
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Freightliner CASCADIA in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Freightliner CASCADIA is named on 73 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020444
- Recall date
- 18 September 2020
- Make
- Freightliner
- Models
- Cascadia
- Model years
- 2017 to 2020
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 13,655
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain trucks, the brake lights may stay on after the brake pedal is released.Safety Risk:
Brake lights that stay on could cause other road users not to recognize when the truck is braking. This could increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your truck to a DTNA authorized service facility to replace the 3-pin brake pressure switch with a 2-pin switch. A jumper harness will also be added. For vehicles equipped with a Cummins engine, the final repair has not yet been finalized. As an interim repair, the 3-pin brake pressure switch will be replaced with a new 3-pin brake pressure switch. A follow up notice will be sent to those owners when the final repair is available.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2020444.
Freightliner elsewhere in this register
Freightliner is named on 376 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2020408 · 1 September 2020 · Business Class M2, 114sd, 108sd · Engine
- 2020488 · 16 October 2020 · Cascadia, 122sd, 5700 · Powertrain
- 2020513 · 27 October 2020 · Business Class M2, 114sd, Cascadia · Wheels
- 2020365 · 7 August 2020 · Business Class M2 · Engine
- 2020551 · 12 November 2020 · 4900, 379, T800 · Structure
- 2020305 · 2 July 2020 · Cascadia · Brakes
- 2020636 · 21 December 2020 · Business Class M2, Saf-T-Liner C2 Non-School Bus · Brakes
- 2020158 · 14 April 2020 · Century, Columbia, Classic · Lights And Instruments
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020433 · 14 September 2020 · Cforce 600 · Brakes
- 2020431 · 13 September 2020 · Tucson · Brakes
- 2020417 · 3 September 2020 · VNL, VNR, VHD · Brakes
- 2020420 · 3 September 2020 · MP3 500 · Brakes
- 2020410 · 1 September 2020 · Santa Fe Sport · Brakes
- 2020404 · 31 August 2020 · Stinger · Brakes
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This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Freightliner: 376 in the register, and 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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