Trans Tech Bus Student Safety Transport, model years 2012 to 2015. Filed by Transportation Collaborative, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 12 February 2016. 50 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Transportation Collaborative, Inc. (Transportation Collaborative) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Trans Tech Student Safety Transporter school buses manufactured from December 1, 2012, through April 23, 2015. In the event of a crash, the barrier on the driver's side may not deform as intended. As such, these …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 16V085 cover?
- Trans Tech Bus Student Safety Transport, model years 2012-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Transportation Collaborative, Inc. (Transportation Collaborative) is recalling certain model year 2012-2015 Trans Tech Student Safety Transporter school buses manufactured from December 1, 2012, through April 23, 2015.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the barrier does not deform properly, vehicle occupants are at a greater risk of injuries should they impact the barrier in a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Trans Tech will notify owners and provide a free retrofit kit along with installation instructions. An interim notice was distributed to owners on April 14, 2016. The recall began on April 18, 2016. Owners may contact Transportation Collaborative customer service at 1-845-988-0419.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “If the barrier does not deform properly, vehicle occupants are at a greater risk of injuries should they impact the barrier in a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V085 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Transportation Collaborative, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats:Barriers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 February 2016 |
| Model years | 2012-2015 |
| Vehicles named | TRANS TECH BUS STUDENT SAFETY TRANSPORT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the barrier does not deform properly, vehicle occupants are at a greater risk of injuries should they impact the barrier in a crash.
The remedy
Trans Tech will notify owners and provide a free retrofit kit along with installation instructions. An interim notice was distributed to owners on April 14, 2016. The recall began on April 18, 2016. Owners may contact Transportation Collaborative customer service at 1-845-988-0419.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V085, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v085/
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.
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Other Trans Tech Bus notices we hold
- 19V842: 2019-2020 TransTech CST and SST school buses equipped with Safe Fleet Prolo hatches
- 17V399: 2012-2017 Transtech Bus ST Aero, SST, CST, Horizon, and RoadStar transit buses equipped with Bus-Air air conditioning systems
All 3 Trans Tech Bus campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 16V085 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
45ca00fb - Consequence
465b0574 - 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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