Altec Ap Series, model years 2013 to 2025. Filed by Altec Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 16 July 2026. 884 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2013-2025 AP45A trucks. The boom stow switch wire in the cargo storage area may become damaged, which can result in a short circuit, causing the wire to overheat.
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.
Altec's own number for this recall: CSN-3349. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V457 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 26V457 cover?
- Altec Ap Series, model years 2013-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2013-2025 AP45A trucks. The boom stow switch wire in the cargo storage area may become damaged, which can result in a short circuit, causing the wire to overheat.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An overheated wire can ignite flammable material in the cargo area, increasing the risk of fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Altec will instruct owners to inspect their vehicle and if the wire is not protected, order a kit that includes a bolt on guard to protect the wires, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 11, 2026.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Altec calls this recall CSN-3349, 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: “An overheated wire can ignite flammable material in the cargo area, increasing the risk of fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V457 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Altec Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring:Switches/Knobs/Buttons |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2013-2025 |
| Vehicles named | ALTEC AP SERIES |
What the notice says today
The defect
Altec Industries, Inc. (Altec) is recalling certain 2013-2025 AP45A trucks. The boom stow switch wire in the cargo storage area may become damaged, which can result in a short circuit, causing the wire to overheat.
The consequence
An overheated wire can ignite flammable material in the cargo area, increasing the risk of fire.
The remedy
Altec will instruct owners to inspect their vehicle and if the wire is not protected, order a kit that includes a bolt on guard to protect the wires, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed September 11, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the final remedy is available. Owners may contact Altec customer service at 1-877-462-5832. Altec's number for this recall is CSN-3349.
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 f7063512ca45daf878b539a353db2815…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 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 2026400, recorded 19 August 2026
Matched on CSN3349, 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V457, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v457/
The copy quoted above hashes to f7063512ca45daf878b539a353db2815…. 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.
Other Altec notices we hold
- 26V463: 2024-2026 AT Series
- 26V429: 2022-2026 Service Body
- 26V409: 2023-2025 Digger Derrick
- 26V384: 2024-2026 AC Series Crane
- 26V243: 2025-2026 AM Series Aerial Device
- 26V170: 2025 AC Series Crane and DT Series Digger Derrick
- 26V150: 2023-2026 Service Body, Aerial Device, Pressure Digger, Spray Truck, and Digger Derrick
- 26V071: 2021-2025 Digger Derrick and 2021-2025 AM Series Aerial Device
All 183 Altec 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 26V457 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
66421093 - Consequence
2d309360 - 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 26V457 · how the whole register is watched
63 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
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