Startrans Candidate, Startrans Candidate Ii, Startrans President, Startrans Senator, Startrans Senator Hd, Startrans Senator Ii, model years 2007 to 2010. Filed by Startrans Bus Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 10 May 2010. 805 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Startrans bus is recalling certain model year 2007 through 2010 candidate, candidate ii, senator, senator hd, president, trolley, senator ii, and sentinal transit buses manufactured from december 2007 through december 18, 2009 and fitted with ricon public use lifts. the restraint belt on these lifts was designed to …
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The maker's own number for this recall: 000314. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 10V204 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 10V204 cover?
- Startrans Candidate, Startrans Candidate Ii, Startrans President, Startrans Senator, Startrans Senator HD, Startrans Senator Ii, Startrans Trolley, model years 2007-2010.
- What is wrong with them?
- STARTRANS BUS IS RECALLING CERTAIN MODEL YEAR 2007 THROUGH 2010 CANDIDATE, CANDIDATE II, SENATOR, SENATOR HD, PRESIDENT, TROLLEY, SENATOR II, AND SENTINAL TRANSIT BUSES MANUFACTURED FROM DECEMBER 2007 THROUGH DECEMBER 18, 2009 AND FITTED WITH RICON PUBLIC USE LIFTS.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- THE USER OF THE LIFT COULD BE INJURED SHOULD THE LIFT MOVE WITHOUT THE RESTRAINT BELT PROPERLY BUCKLED.
- Is there a fix yet?
- STARTRANS BUS IS WORKING WITH RICON AND RICON WILL BE PERFORMING THE REMEDY FOR THIS CAMPAIGN. PLEASE SEE RICON'S DEFECT REPORT 09E-060. RICON WILL PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH A WARNING DECAL AND A DVD-BASED TRAINING AID. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON JULY 12, 2010.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 000314, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “THE USER OF THE LIFT COULD BE INJURED SHOULD THE LIFT MOVE WITHOUT THE RESTRAINT BELT PROPERLY BUCKLED.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 10V204 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | STARTRANS BUS CORPORATION |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 May 2010 |
| Model years | 2007-2010 |
| Vehicles named | STARTRANS CANDIDATE, STARTRANS CANDIDATE II, STARTRANS PRESIDENT, STARTRANS SENATOR, STARTRANS SENATOR HD, STARTRANS SENATOR II, STARTRANS TROLLEY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
THE USER OF THE LIFT COULD BE INJURED SHOULD THE LIFT MOVE WITHOUT THE RESTRAINT BELT PROPERLY BUCKLED.
The remedy
STARTRANS BUS IS WORKING WITH RICON AND RICON WILL BE PERFORMING THE REMEDY FOR THIS CAMPAIGN. PLEASE SEE RICON'S DEFECT REPORT 09E-060. RICON WILL PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH A WARNING DECAL AND A DVD-BASED TRAINING AID. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON JULY 12, 2010. OWNERS MAY CONTACT RICON AT 1-818-267-3000 OR STARTRANS BUS AT 1-574-642-0811.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Startrans Candidate recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Startrans Candidate Ii recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Startrans President recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Startrans Senator recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Startrans Senator HD recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Startrans Senator Ii recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Startrans Trolley recalls: 6 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 10V204, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/10v204/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 10V204 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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4b48cc0c - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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