Altec Aerial Device, model years 2005 to 2021. Filed by Altec Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 1 June 2021. 1,977 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2005-2021 A65, A70, A75, A72-T, A77-T, and A82-T vehicles. The lower and upper boom raise spools can shift after releasing the joystick or control interlock.
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 823. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V409 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 21V409 cover?
- Altec Aerial Device, model years 2005-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2005-2021 A65, A70, A75, A72-T, A77-T, and A82-T vehicles. The lower and upper boom raise spools can shift after releasing the joystick or control interlock.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Unintended movement of the lower and upper booms increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will install a jumper hose and check valve into the boomtip tank lines and replace the overcenter blocking cartridge with an internally referenced drain path, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 28, 2021. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832.
- 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 823, 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: “Unintended movement of the lower and upper booms increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V409 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 June 2021 |
| Model years | 2005-2021 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC AERIAL DEVICE |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Unintended movement of the lower and upper booms increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Altec will install a jumper hose and check valve into the boomtip tank lines and replace the overcenter blocking cartridge with an internally referenced drain path, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 28, 2021. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN 823.
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 21V409, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v409/
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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- 26V429: 2022-2026 Service Body
- 26V409: 2023-2025 Digger Derrick
- 26V384: 2024-2026 AC Series Crane
- 26V243: 2025-2026 AM Series Aerial Device
- 26V170: 2025 AC Series Crane and DT Series Digger Derrick
- 26V150: 2023-2026 Service Body, Aerial Device, Pressure Digger, Spray Truck, and Digger Derrick
All 183 Altec 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 21V409 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f42d1c97 - Consequence
ac09ac5e - 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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