Fontaine Fusion Flat Bed Trailer, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by Fontaine Trailer Company and reported to NHTSA on 8 May 2026. 247 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Fontaine Trailer Company (Fontaine Trailer) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Fusion flatbed trailers. The main beams may have been contaminated with hydrogen during the galvanization process, causing the beams to crack.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V291 cover?
- Fontaine Fusion Flat Bed Trailer, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Fontaine Trailer Company (Fontaine Trailer) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Fusion flatbed trailers. The main beams may have been contaminated with hydrogen during the galvanization process, causing the beams to crack.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A cracked beam may break, resulting in a loss of load support and increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to use their trailer until the remedy is completed. Fontaine Trailer will inspect and replace the trailers as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 11, 2026.
- 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: “A cracked beam may break, resulting in a loss of load support and increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V291 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Fontaine Trailer Company |
| System at fault | Structure:Frame And Members |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 May 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | FONTAINE FUSION FLAT BED TRAILER |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The defect
Fontaine Trailer Company (Fontaine Trailer) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Fusion flatbed trailers. The main beams may have been contaminated with hydrogen during the galvanization process, causing the beams to crack.
The consequence
A cracked beam may break, resulting in a loss of load support and increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to use their trailer until the remedy is completed. Fontaine Trailer will inspect and replace the trailers as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed May 11, 2026. Owners may contact Fontaine Trailer customer service at 1-800-821-6535, option 5.
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 f46cdced8a834910f075b905187c087a…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 26V291, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v291/
The copy quoted above hashes to f46cdced8a834910f075b905187c087a…. 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 26V291 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a34251eb - Consequence
bebfbbc9 - 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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