Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Cascadia, Freightliner Classic Cascadia, Western Star 4700, model years 2020 to 2024. Filed by Daimler Trucks North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 26 April 2023. 266 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain short wheelbase 2020-2024 Freightliner Cascadia, 2021-2024 Freightliner M2 Business Class, 2022 Western Star 4700, and 2020 Freightliner Classic Cascadia vehicles. The vehicle is equipped with an electronic stability control system and tire combination that …
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Freightliner's own number for this recall: FL971. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V299 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 23V299 cover?
- Freightliner Business Class M2, Freightliner Cascadia, Freightliner Classic Cascadia, Western Star 4700, model years 2020-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Trucks North America, LLC (DTNA) is recalling certain short wheelbase 2020-2024 Freightliner Cascadia, 2021-2024 Freightliner M2 Business Class, 2022 Western Star 4700, and 2020 Freightliner Classic Cascadia vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Understeering during a J-turn may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. DTNA will replace the tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 19, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL971.
- 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 FL971, 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: “Understeering during a J-turn may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V299 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Trucks North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Electronic Stability Control (ESC) |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 April 2023 |
| Model years | 2020-2024 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER BUSINESS CLASS M2, FREIGHTLINER CASCADIA, FREIGHTLINER CLASSIC CASCADIA, WESTERN STAR 4700 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Understeering during a J-turn may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
DTNA will replace the tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 19, 2023. Owners may contact DTNA customer service at 1-800-547-0712. DTNA's number for this recall is FL971.
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 84 notices in the record whose component field names electronic stability control (esc). Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 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 2023256, recorded 27 April 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on FL971, 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 Business Class M2 recalls: 82 US campaigns
- Freightliner Cascadia recalls: 124 US campaigns
- Western Star 4700 recalls: 49 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 23V299, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v299/
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 23V299 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8e0f3167 - Consequence
bfec8124 - 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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