Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Hdx, model years 2010 to 2019. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America LLC and reported to NHTSA on 11 June 2019. 11,546 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2010-2020 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, 2016-2019 HDX, and 2017-2019 EFX school buses equipped with Bendix Air Disc Brakes. The driver side rear brakes may drag.
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.
Thomas Built Buses's own number for this recall: FL-818. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V444 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 19V444 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx, Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX, model years 2010-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2010-2020 Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2, 2016-2019 HDX, and 2017-2019 EFX school buses equipped with Bendix Air Disc Brakes. The driver side rear brakes may drag.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The dragging brakes may lead to high temperatures at the wheel end, increasing the risk of smoke and fire, possibly resulting in the bus having to be evacuated, which can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will install a new caliper with an updated clearance adjustment mechanism, free of charge. The recall began August 9, 2019. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-818.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Thomas Built Buses calls this recall FL-818, 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 dragging brakes may lead to high temperatures at the wheel end, increasing the risk of smoke and fire, possibly resulting in the bus having to be evacuated, which can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V444 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Disc |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 June 2019 |
| Model years | 2010-2019 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER C2, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER EFX, THOMAS BUILT BUSES SAF-T-LINER HDX |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The dragging brakes may lead to high temperatures at the wheel end, increasing the risk of smoke and fire, possibly resulting in the bus having to be evacuated, which can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
DTNA will notify owners, and dealers will install a new caliper with an updated clearance adjustment mechanism, free of charge. The recall began August 9, 2019. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL-818.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner C2 recalls: 115 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner Efx recalls: 42 US campaigns
- Thomas Built Buses Saf-T-Liner HDX recalls: 78 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V444, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v444/
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 19V444 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
47129a7a - Consequence
8eb6cd2d - 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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