Autocar E-Actt, model years 2023 to 2027. Filed by Autocar, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 30 July 2026. 137 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors. The Antilock Braking System (ABS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) may be improperly secured, allowing the ABS ECU to separate.
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.
Autocar's own number for this recall: ACTT-2601. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V501 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 26V501 cover?
- Autocar E-Actt, model years 2023-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors. The Antilock Braking System (ABS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) may be improperly secured, allowing the ABS ECU to separate.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A separated ABS ECU may become damaged, causing the ABS system to fail and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Autocar will replace the fasteners, free of charge. Owner notification letters to be mailed September 25, 2026. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2601.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Autocar calls this recall ACTT-2601, 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: “A separated ABS ECU may become damaged, causing the ABS system to fail and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V501 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Autocar, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Air:Antilock:Control Unit/Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2023-2027 |
| Vehicles named | AUTOCAR E-ACTT |
What the notice says today
The defect
Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors. The Antilock Braking System (ABS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) may be improperly secured, allowing the ABS ECU to separate.
The consequence
A separated ABS ECU may become damaged, causing the ABS system to fail and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Autocar will replace the fasteners, free of charge. Owner notification letters to be mailed September 25, 2026. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2601.
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 eaa7b1aa1b6d79f15c8f586fb292a3ae…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 353 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, air. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . 2 changes recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 1 October 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
1 October 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Autocar will replace the fasteners, free of charge. Owner notification letters to be mailed September 25, 2026. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2601.
After: Autocar will replace the fasteners, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 25, 2026. Owners may contact Autocar customer service at 1-888-218-3611. Autocar's number for this recall is ACTT-2601.
Side by side
26 September 2026: the defect summary was rewritten. Before: Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2027 ACTT terminal tractors. The Antilock Braking System (ABS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) may be improperly secured, allowing the ABS ECU to separate.
After: Autocar, LLC (Autocar) is recalling certain 2023-2027 E-ACTT terminal tractors. The Antilock Braking System (ABS) Electronic Control Unit (ECU) may be improperly secured, allowing the ABS ECU to separate.
Side by side
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V501, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v501/
The copy quoted above hashes to eaa7b1aa1b6d79f15c8f586fb292a3ae…. 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 Autocar notices we hold
- 26V215: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 26V055: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V875: one 2024 E-ACTT terminal tractor
- 25V746: 2025-2026 ACX (Xpeditor)
- 25V679: 2024-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend)
- 25V660: 2023-2026 ACX (Xpeditor) and DC (Legend)
- 25V451: 2012-2025 ACTT (Xspotter)
- 25V449: 2015-2022 ACTT (Xspotter) and ACX (Xpeditor)
All 118 Autocar 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 26V501 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8493b59d - Consequence
0bad347d - 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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