Altec Freightliner, model years 2011 to 2012. Filed by Altec Industries Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 3 October 2012. 1,807 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc. is recalling certain model year 2011-2012 vehicles mounted on a Freightliner chassis. Due to improper installation, the air supply line of the front brakes is susceptible to kinking.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Altec's own number for this recall: MAB 571. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 12V483 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 12V483 cover?
- Altec Freightliner, model years 2011-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc. is recalling certain model year 2011-2012 vehicles mounted on a Freightliner chassis. Due to improper installation, the air supply line of the front brakes is susceptible to kinking.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Overtime, the front brake line could become kinked leading to a loss of front brake control, increasing the risk of crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will notify owners, and will repair the vehicles, free of charge. The safety recall began on January 4, 2013. Owners may contact Altec Industries at 1-877-462-5832.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall MAB 571, 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: “Overtime, the front brake line could become kinked leading to a loss of front brake control, increasing the risk of crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 12V483 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Supply:Hoses, Lines/Piping, And Fittings |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 October 2012 |
| Model years | 2011-2012 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC FREIGHTLINER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Overtime, the front brake line could become kinked leading to a loss of front brake control, increasing the risk of crash.
The remedy
Altec will notify owners, and will repair the vehicles, free of charge. The safety recall began on January 4, 2013. Owners may contact Altec Industries at 1-877-462-5832.
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 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 12V483, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/12v483/
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.
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- 12V411: model year 2008-2009 Aerial Device
- 12V390: model year 2012 Aerial Device
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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 12V483 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e0b4c46c - Consequence
062221f7 - 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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