Cottrell 1-Car, Cottrell 1-Car Carrier, model years 2019 to 9999. Filed by Cottrell, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 28 October 2019. 89 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Cottrell, Inc. (Cottrell) is recalling certain 2018-2019 1-Car trailers. The vehicles may be missing marker lights at the center of the bottom rear of the trailer. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and …
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.
Cottrell's own number for this recall: 1-CAR. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V771 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 19V771 cover?
- Cottrell 1-Car, Cottrell 1-Car Carrier, model years 2019 onwards.
- What is wrong with them?
- Cottrell, Inc. (Cottrell) is recalling certain 2018-2019 1-Car trailers. The vehicles may be missing marker lights at the center of the bottom rear of the trailer.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The lack of the marker lights may reduce the trailer's visibility to others, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Cottrell has notified the owner of the affected trailers and has been working to schedule the modification of all units, free of charge. No additional owner letters will be mailed. The recall began on October 28, 2019. Owners may contact Cottrell at 1-800-827-0132.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Cottrell calls this recall 1-CAR, 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 lack of the marker lights may reduce the trailer's visibility to others, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V771 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Cottrell, Inc. |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 28 October 2019 |
| Model years | 2019-9999 |
| Vehicles named | COTTRELL 1-CAR, COTTRELL 1-CAR CARRIER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The lack of the marker lights may reduce the trailer's visibility to others, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Cottrell has notified the owner of the affected trailers and has been working to schedule the modification of all units, free of charge. No additional owner letters will be mailed. The recall began on October 28, 2019. Owners may contact Cottrell at 1-800-827-0132. Cottrell's number for this recall is 1-car.
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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. 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 19V771, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v771/
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.
Other Cottrell notices we hold
- 21V863: 2019-2022 2-Car Carrier
- 21V626: 2018-2021 1-Car Carrier trailers
- 14V028: model year 2005-2011 auto transporter
- 12V370: model year 2006-2011 trailers equipped with a Meritor axle
- 11V594: ALL MODELS OF COTTRELL TRAILERS, MODEL YEAR 2006 THROUGH 2011, EQUIPPED WITH MERITOR AXLES THAT CONTAIN THE FAG BRAND BEARING SYSTEM
All 6 Cottrell 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 19V771 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
95fb2cdd - Consequence
61e50d1c - 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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