Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model years 2021 to 2023. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 14 November 2022. 20 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Thomas Built Buses Minotour school buses. The forward seat barrier behind the driver may not provide sufficient protection to passengers. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number …
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.
Thomas Built Buses's own number for this recall: FL959. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V840 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 22V840 cover?
- Thomas Built Buses Minotour, model years 2021-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Thomas Built Buses Minotour school buses. The forward seat barrier behind the driver may not provide sufficient protection to passengers.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Occupants may collide with the front seat barrier with more force than intended during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the barrier, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL959.
- 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 FL959, 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: “Occupants may collide with the front seat barrier with more force than intended during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V840 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Seats:Barriers |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 November 2022 |
| Model years | 2021-2023 |
| Vehicles named | THOMAS BUILT BUSES MINOTOUR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Occupants may collide with the front seat barrier with more force than intended during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the barrier, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 9, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL959.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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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 22V840 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1f9dc1f3 - Consequence
c1b6e0d5 - 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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