Forest River Bus Trans Tech School Bus, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Forest River Bus, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 16 January 2026. 67 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Forest River bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Trans Tech school buses. The modified seating floor plan may exceed the the rear Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR). As such these vehicles fail to comply with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, "Wheels and Rims - Other …
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Forest River's own number for this recall: 05-2015. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V014 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 26V014 cover?
- Forest River Bus Trans Tech School Bus, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Forest River bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Trans Tech school buses. The modified seating floor plan may exceed the the rear Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR).
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Overloading the rear axle may cause loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will modify the seating free of charge and provide a refund for lost seating capacity as necessary. Owner notification letters were mailed February 17, 2026. Owners may contact Forest River Bus customer service at 1-800-348-7440. Forest River Bus's number for this recall is 05-2015.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Forest River calls this recall 05-2015, 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: “Overloading the rear axle may cause loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V014 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Forest River Bus, LLC |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | FOREST RIVER BUS TRANS TECH SCHOOL BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Forest River bus, LLC (Forest River Bus) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Trans Tech school buses. The modified seating floor plan may exceed the the rear Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR). As such these vehicles fail to comply with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 120, "Wheels and Rims - Other Than Passenger Cars."
The consequence
Overloading the rear axle may cause loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will modify the seating free of charge and provide a refund for lost seating capacity as necessary. Owner notification letters were mailed February 17, 2026. Owners may contact Forest River Bus customer service at 1-800-348-7440. Forest River Bus's number for this recall is 05-2015.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to f93387e1b56c24b7ae23cedd80cc7eee…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V014, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v014/
The copy quoted above hashes to f93387e1b56c24b7ae23cedd80cc7eee…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
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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 26V014 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
4888f6df - Consequence
a2029b36 - 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.
The wording we hold for 26V014 · how the whole register is watched
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