Freightliner 108sd, Freightliner 114sd, Freightliner 122sd, Freightliner Cascadia, Freightliner Columbia, Freightliner Coronado, model years 2019 to 2021. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 20 February 2023. 60,604 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, 122SD, Columbia, Coronado, Business Class M2, and 2020 Freightliner Cascadia vehicles. The drag link taper joint may not have been tightened sufficiently and could come loose, resulting in a complete separation of the …
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.
Freightliner's own number for this recall: FL967. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V105 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 23V105 cover?
- Freightliner 108Sd, Freightliner 114Sd, Freightliner 122Sd, Freightliner Cascadia, Freightliner Columbia, Freightliner Coronado, Freightliner M2, model years 2019-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain 2019-2021 Freightliner 108SD, 114SD, 122SD, Columbia, Coronado, Business Class M2, and 2020 Freightliner Cascadia vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Drag link separation can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA will inspect the drag link taper joint and repair it, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 21, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL967. This recall expands recall number 21V-689.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Freightliner calls this recall FL967, 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: “Drag link separation can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V105 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Steering:Linkages:Drag:Link:Connection |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 February 2023 |
| Model years | 2019-2021 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER 108SD, FREIGHTLINER 114SD, FREIGHTLINER 122SD, FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA, FREIGHTLINER COLUMBIA, FREIGHTLINER CORONADO, FREIGHTLINER M2 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Drag link separation can cause a complete loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
DTNA will inspect the drag link taper joint and repair it, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 21, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL967. This recall expands recall number 21V-689.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023083, recorded 20 February 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on FL967, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Freightliner 108sd recalls: 51 US campaigns
- Freightliner 114sd recalls: 66 US campaigns
- Freightliner 122sd recalls: 26 US campaigns
- Freightliner Cascadia recalls: 124 US campaigns
- Freightliner Columbia recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Freightliner Coronado recalls: 35 US campaigns
- Freightliner M2 recalls: 41 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 23V105, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v105/
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.
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.
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 23V105 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
804b51a7 - Consequence
29424308 - 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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