Maintainer Crane W/ Service Body, model years 2019 to 2023. Filed by Maintainer Corporation of Iowa, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 7 February 2023. 1,120 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Maintainer Corporation of Iowa, Inc. (Maintainer) is recalling certain 2019-2023 Maintainer Service Trucks with Hydraulic Telescopic Cranes. During crane operation, if power gets disconnected to the receiver on the Maintainer crane, the crane may continue to move without control of the user.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 23V057 cover?
- Maintainer Crane W/ Service Body, model years 2019-2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Maintainer Corporation of Iowa, Inc. (Maintainer) is recalling certain 2019-2023 Maintainer Service Trucks with Hydraulic Telescopic Cranes. During crane operation, if power gets disconnected to the receiver on the Maintainer crane, the crane may continue to move without control of the user.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Losing control over the crane while it is moving may increase the risk of injury to the operator or those nearby.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Maintainer will install a software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning February 7, 2023. Owners may contact Maintainer customer service at 1-800-831-8588.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “Losing control over the crane while it is moving may increase the risk of injury to the operator or those nearby.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V057 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Maintainer Corporation of Iowa, Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Mechanical:Boom/Crane/Ladder |
| Reported to NHTSA | 7 February 2023 |
| Model years | 2019-2023 |
| Vehicles named | MAINTAINER CRANE W/ SERVICE BODY |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Losing control over the crane while it is moving may increase the risk of injury to the operator or those nearby.
The remedy
Maintainer will install a software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning February 7, 2023. Owners may contact Maintainer customer service at 1-800-831-8588.
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
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CarsMultiverse, recall 23V057, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v057/
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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Other Maintainer notices we hold
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- 22V074: 2021-2022 Maintainer truck-mounted cranes equipped with Miller Enpak model A60GBH auxiliary power units
- 21V518: 2019-2020 Service/Mechanics Bodies mounted on International MV607
- 21V503: one 2015 Custom Bodies Heavy Rescue Truck
- 20V261: modified 2019-2020 International CV 515 and Chevrolet Silverado tow
- 19V898: 2015-2019 Custom Bodies Heavy Rescue emergency response
- 19V894: one 2019 Custom Bodies Heavy Rescue emergency response
- 19V890: one 2019 Custom Bodies Heavy Rescue emergency response
All 11 Maintainer 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 23V057 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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eb0c9868 - Remedy
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