Pierce Arrow Xt, Pierce Dash Cf, Pierce Enforcer, Pierce Quantum, Pierce Velocity, model years 2010 to 2022. Filed by Pierce Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 27 October 2022. 299 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Pierce Manufacturing (Pierce) is recalling certain 2010-2022 Pierce Velocity, Enforcer, Arrow XT, Quantum, and Dash CF fire trucks. Stokes basket mounting brackets may be insufficiently welded.
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.
Pierce's own number for this recall: 74B323. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V809 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 22V809 cover?
- Pierce Arrow XT, Pierce Dash CF, Pierce Enforcer, Pierce Quantum, Pierce Velocity, model years 2010-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Pierce Manufacturing (Pierce) is recalling certain 2010-2022 Pierce Velocity, Enforcer, Arrow XT, Quantum, and Dash CF fire trucks. Stokes basket mounting brackets may be insufficiently welded.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The left and/or right brackets can fail, allowing the stokes basket to fall and increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Pierce will replace the stokes basket mounting brackets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 14, 2022. Owners may contact Pierce's customer service at 1-888-974-3723. Pierce's number for this recall is 74B323.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Pierce calls this recall 74B323, 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 left and/or right brackets can fail, allowing the stokes basket to fall and increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V809 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Pierce Manufacturing |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 October 2022 |
| Model years | 2010-2022 |
| Vehicles named | PIERCE ARROW XT, PIERCE DASH CF, PIERCE ENFORCER, PIERCE QUANTUM, PIERCE VELOCITY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The left and/or right brackets can fail, allowing the stokes basket to fall and increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Pierce will replace the stokes basket mounting brackets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 14, 2022. Owners may contact Pierce's customer service at 1-888-974-3723. Pierce's number for this recall is 74B323.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Pierce Arrow XT recalls: 43 US campaigns
- Pierce Dash CF recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Pierce Enforcer recalls: 34 US campaigns
- Pierce Quantum recalls: 32 US campaigns
- Pierce Velocity recalls: 46 US campaigns
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 Pierce notices we hold
- 26V217: 2015-2026 Arrow XT, Enforcer, Impel, and Velocity 107’ ladder and 110’ platform aerial firetrucks equipped with a single rear axle
- 26V060: 2025 Velocity, Saber, Impel, Enforcer, and Arrow XT
- 24V905: 2023-2024 Enforcer, Quantum, and Velocity fire trucks
- 24V147: 2023-2024 Commercial Chassis equipped with Hercules HC 1
- 24V127: 2020 Enforcer, 2021-2022 Velocity, and 2023 Saber
- 24V012: 2020-2023 Freightliner and International Chassis
- 23V823: 2019-2023 Arrow XT, Enforcer, and Velocity mid-mount tower trucks equipped with an aerial platform basket
- 23V407: 2016-2022 Ascendant 107' Aerials and 110' Platforms mounted on single rear axle Enforcer chassis
All 61 Pierce 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 22V809 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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420995e7 - 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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