Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model year 2022. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 20 December 2021. 2 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2022 Thomas Built Minotour School Buses built on a Ford chassis. The driver may be able to release the parking brake and shift into a drive gear while the wheelchair lift is deployed. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal …
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Thomas Built Buses's own number for this recall: FL916. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V999 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 21V999 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model year 2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2022 Thomas Built Minotour School Buses built on a Ford chassis. The driver may be able to release the parking brake and shift into a drive gear while the wheelchair lift is deployed.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Bus movement with the wheelchair lift deployed can increase the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA service facilities will modify the wheelchair lift wiring as necessary, free of charge. No owner notifications will be distributed to owners. The recall was completed February 17, 2022. Owner may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL916.
- 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 FL916, 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: “Bus movement with the wheelchair lift deployed can increase the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V999 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Lift/Ramp |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 December 2021 |
| Model years | 2022-2022 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES MINOTOUR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Bus movement with the wheelchair lift deployed can increase the risk of injury.
The remedy
DTNA service facilities will modify the wheelchair lift wiring as necessary, free of charge. No owner notifications will be distributed to owners. The recall was completed February 17, 2022. Owner may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL916.
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 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 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 21V999, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v999/
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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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 21V999 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0da34a47 - Consequence
b025c61d - 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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