Recall Register

Freightliner Cascadia: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 137 recall campaigns for the Freightliner Cascadia, model years 2002 to 2026. NHTSA has 109 complaints on file for this model line. 23 of the 25 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. 20021
  2. 20031
  3. 20042
  4. 20053
  5. 20068
  6. 200712
  7. 200822
  8. 200924
  9. 201023
  10. 201123
  11. 201219
  12. 201319
  13. 201421
  14. 201518
  15. 201612
  16. 201720
  17. 201826
  18. 201929
  19. 202021
  20. 202121
  21. 202219
  22. 20237
  23. 20242
  24. 20258
  25. 20263
Freightliner Cascadia: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Freightliner Cascadia300%2,713
2025 Freightliner Cascadia800%5,841
2024 Freightliner Cascadia200%277
2023 Freightliner Cascadia700%299,676
2022 Freightliner Cascadia1900%521,245
2021 Freightliner Cascadia2100%1,011,083
2020 Freightliner Cascadia21123%1,052,845
2019 Freightliner Cascadia298183%1,058,949
2018 Freightliner Cascadia26123%1,267,163
2017 Freightliner Cascadia205115%1,248,689
2016 Freightliner Cascadia12369%548,373
2015 Freightliner Cascadia1812275%548,627
2014 Freightliner Cascadia218183%621,784
2013 Freightliner Cascadia195115%698,307
2012 Freightliner Cascadia1914321%759,423
2011 Freightliner Cascadia2311252%817,013
2010 Freightliner Cascadia2312275%840,192
2009 Freightliner Cascadia2419436%851,916
2008 Freightliner Cascadia227161%905,756
2007 Freightliner Cascadia12123%320,097
2006 Freightliner Cascadia8123%237,070
2005 Freightliner Cascadia3123%108,049
2004 Freightliner Cascadia200%98,360
2003 Freightliner Cascadia NHTSA page100%24,860
2002 Freightliner Cascadia NHTSA page100%24,860

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

163 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 Cascadia: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering196.332
Electrical System177.929
Service Brakes79.813
Engine67.511
Fuel/Propulsion System67.511
Vehicle Speed Control49.18
Power Train42.97
Structure36.86
Exterior Lighting36.86
Visibility30.75

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Freightliner Cascadia, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2018, with 15 campaigns.
Complaints about the Freightliner Cascadia, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2015, with 17 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Freightliner: all 77 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Freightliner Cascadia: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/freightliner/cascadia/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
Daimler Trucks North America LLC

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 Cascadia model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 29, 2018 with 26, 2009 with 24. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Freightliner Cascadia model year has the most complaints?
The 2009 model year, with 19 of the 109 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Freightliner Cascadia name?
Steering: 196.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 177.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes: 79.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Freightliner Cascadia?
15 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.