Carrier Transicold Truck Refrigeration Units, model year 9999. Filed by Carrier Corporation and reported to NHTSA on 20 March 2020. 711 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Carrier Corporation (Carrier) is recalling certain Carrier Transicold Supra series S6, S7, S8 and S9 Truck Refrigeration Units (TRU). The TRUs battery and standby cables may be improperly routed, allowing contact and chafing with the engine oil pan.
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.
Carrier's own number for this recall: R-969. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20E014 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 20E014 cover?
- Carrier Transicold Truck Refrigeration Units.
- What is wrong with them?
- Carrier Corporation (Carrier) is recalling certain Carrier Transicold Supra series S6, S7, S8 and S9 Truck Refrigeration Units (TRU). The TRUs battery and standby cables may be improperly routed, allowing contact and chafing with the engine oil pan.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the cables chafe the engine oil pan, the cables can become damaged and short, increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Carrier will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and reroute and secure the TRUs battery and standby cables, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began May 19, 2020. Owners may contact Carrier customer service at 1-800-448-1661. Carrier's number for this recall is R-969.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Carrier calls this recall R-969, 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: “If the cables chafe the engine oil pan, the cables can become damaged and short, increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20E014 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Carrier Corporation |
| System at fault | Equipment:Electrical |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 March 2020 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | CARRIER TRANSICOLD TRUCK REFRIGERATION UNITS |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the cables chafe the engine oil pan, the cables can become damaged and short, increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Carrier will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and reroute and secure the TRUs battery and standby cables, as necessary, free of charge. The recall began May 19, 2020. Owners may contact Carrier customer service at 1-800-448-1661. Carrier's number for this recall is R-969.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20E014, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20e014/
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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- 20E015: Carrier Transicold Vector 8611MT Trailer Refrigeration Units (TRU)
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- 16E087: starters used for starting Carrier Transicold trailer refrigeration units
- 14E017: Carrier Transicold X2 2100A, X2 2500A trailer refrigeration units, and aftermarket replacement part kits
All 9 Carrier 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 20E014 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a120993d - Consequence
b02fc6aa - 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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