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The delay · McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing

Across 30 recalls with both dates on record, McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing waited a median of 36 days between reporting a defect and writing to owners. That is 5 days faster than the register as a whole.

80Rank for slowness, of 141 manufacturers
57 daysSlowest tenth of its recalls
61 daysIts longest wait on record
1Told owners the same day

If your vehicle was made by McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing

Nothing on this page can tell you whether your own vehicle is affected. Only its vehicle identification number can. The regulator runs a free lookup that takes a VIN and returns every unrepaired safety recall on that exact vehicle, with no account and no charge: the NHTSA recall lookup.

If it returns a recall, the repair is carried out free of charge. That obligation is not unlimited: it runs for fifteen years from the date the vehicle was first sold, but it covers almost every vehicle on the road. The campaign number, the code in the form 26V123 that identifies each campaign below, is the thing to quote when booking it.

The figures on this page describe the letter, not the repair. McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing took a median of 36 days to write to owners after reporting a defect, and its slowest tenth of campaigns took 57 days or more. That is why a vehicle can be under recall for weeks before the person driving it has heard anything, and why the lookup is worth running even when no letter has arrived.

If you believe a vehicle has a safety defect that has not been recalled, the regulator takes reports from owners directly at nhtsa.gov. We are a company that reads and republishes the public register. We are not the regulator, and we cannot act on a complaint for you.

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Of 30 recalls, 18 took more than a month and 0 took more than three months. 2 reached owners before the report reached the regulator. Between them these campaigns cover 23,655 vehicles.

Its slowest recalls

Campaign Make Reported Owners told Wait Vehicles
12V083 AUTOCAR 2012-03-02 2012-05-02 61 days 111
15V536 MCNEILUS 2015-08-21 2015-10-19 59 days 809
22V716 MCNEILUS 2022-09-23 2022-11-21 59 days 1,140
24V632 MCNEILUS 2024-08-22 2024-10-18 57 days 4,300
22V377 MCNEILUS 2022-05-26 2022-07-18 53 days 792
22V376 MCNEILUS 2022-05-26 2022-07-18 53 days 8
24V766 MCNEILUS 2024-10-15 2024-12-02 48 days 431
25V800 MCNEILUS 2025-11-19 2026-01-05 47 days 160
15V720 MCNEILUS 2015-11-02 2015-12-16 44 days 730
14V135 MCNEILUS 2014-03-19 2014-05-01 43 days 213
19V656 MCNEILUS 2019-09-17 2019-10-30 43 days 330
24V914 MCNEILUS 2024-12-06 2025-01-17 42 days 15
17V199 MCNEILUS 2017-03-23 2017-04-28 36 days 130
25V755 MCNEILUS 2025-11-03 2025-12-09 36 days 70
25V754 MCNEILUS 2025-11-03 2025-12-09 36 days 115
15V572 MCNEILUS 2015-09-14 2015-10-19 35 days 6,745
18V858 MCNEILUS 2018-12-03 2019-01-07 35 days 199
15V538 MCNEILUS 2015-08-24 2015-09-25 32 days 365
12V236 MCNEILUS 2012-05-22 2012-06-18 27 days 270
17V228 MCNEILUS 2017-04-04 2017-04-28 24 days 258
13V245 BRIDGEMASTER V 2013-06-12 2013-07-05 23 days 978
18V322 MCNEILUS 2018-05-16 2018-06-04 19 days 1,669
15V857 MCNEILUS 2015-12-21 2016-01-08 18 days 30
20E008 ZF 2020-02-24 2020-03-09 14 days 3
15V111 MCNEILUS 2015-02-25 2015-03-10 13 days 536
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How this was worked out

NHTSA publishes the whole American recall register as one flat file. Two of its columns are the date the defect report was received and the date the manufacturer notified owners. We read both, for every campaign, and subtract one from the other.

Step Count
Campaigns in the file 15,246
No owner-notification date recorded 375
No report-received date recorded 0
Owners told before the regulator 615
Dates that contradict the campaign’s own year 4
Used in the figures above 14,867

Medians rather than averages, because a single campaign notified years late would move an average somewhere meaningless. A recall with a date missing is excluded and counted, never filled in with a guess. Read on 15 September 2026 from the file itself.

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