Recall Register

Freightliner Business Class: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Freightliner Business Class, model years 1991 to 2003. NHTSA has 10 complaints on file for this model line. 12 of the 13 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19912
  2. 19922
  3. 19932
  4. 19943
  5. 19954
  6. 19965
  7. 19976
  8. 19985
  9. 19995
  10. 20009
  11. 20016
  12. 20025
  13. 20031
Freightliner Business Class: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Freightliner Business Class NHTSA page15650%9,602
2002 Freightliner Business Class500%11,009
2001 Freightliner Business Class600%18,593
2000 Freightliner Business Class900%167,351
1999 Freightliner Business Class51130%160,214
1998 Freightliner Business Class500%146,811
1997 Freightliner Business Class62260%149,642
1996 Freightliner Business Class500%114,237
1995 Freightliner Business Class42260%114,095
1994 Freightliner Business Class300%114,033
1993 Freightliner Business Class200%113,485
1992 Freightliner Business Class200%113,485
1991 Freightliner Business Class200%113,485

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

14 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Freightliner Business Class: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure214.33
Engine and Engine Cooling214.33
Service Brakes, Hydraulic142.92
Electrical System71.41
Service Brakes, Air71.41
Parking Brake71.41
Power Train71.41
Tires71.41
Unknown or Other71.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Freightliner Business Class, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Freightliner Business Class, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 3 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Freightliner: all 77 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Freightliner Business Class: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/business-class/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
FREIGHTLINER CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Freightliner Business Class model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 9, 2001 with 6, 1997 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Freightliner Business Class model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 5 of the 10 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner Business Class name?
Structure: 3 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Freightliner Business Class?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.