Altec Aerial Device, model years 1997 to 2017. Filed by Altec Industries Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 14 February 2018. 18,000 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 1997-2017 LRV, and LR7 Aerial devices. The platform leveling yoke may fail, possibly causing an occupant to fall from the platform.
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: CSN 672. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V110 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 18V110 cover?
- Altec Aerial Device, model years 1997-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 1997-2017 LRV, and LR7 Aerial devices. The platform leveling yoke may fail, possibly causing an occupant to fall from the platform.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Failure of the platform leveling yoke can cause the occupant of the platform to fall out, increasing their risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will notify owners, and will inspect the leveling system to verify the correct alignment, replacing any improperly aligned yokes, free of charge. The recall began on April 11, 2018. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 672.
- 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 CSN 672, 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: “Failure of the platform leveling yoke can cause the occupant of the platform to fall out, increasing their risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V110 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 February 2018 |
| Model years | 1997-2017 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC AERIAL DEVICE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Failure of the platform leveling yoke can cause the occupant of the platform to fall out, increasing their risk of injury.
The remedy
Altec will notify owners, and will inspect the leveling system to verify the correct alignment, replacing any improperly aligned yokes, free of charge. The recall began on April 11, 2018. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 672.
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 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 18V110, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v110/
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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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 18V110 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8e0ee520 - Consequence
91ee8308 - 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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