Recall Register

Mack RD: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 40 recall campaigns for the Mack RD, model years 1968 to 2004. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 20 of the 35 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. 19681
  2. 19691
  3. 19703
  4. 19715
  5. 19723
  6. 19734
  7. 19747
  8. 19756
  9. 19765
  10. 197711
  11. 19787
  12. 19791
  13. 19801
  14. 19811
  15. 19821
  16. 19831
  17. 19841
  18. 19851
  19. 19861
  20. 19872
  21. 19882
  22. 19893
  23. 19902
  24. 19911
  25. 19922
  26. 19931
  27. 19941
  28. 19960
  29. 19982
  30. 19994
  31. 20005
  32. 20015
  33. 20023
  34. 20031
  35. 20043
Mack RD: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Mack RD300%25,890
2003 Mack RD NHTSA page100%15,490
2002 Mack RD300%15,739
2001 Mack RD500%16,500
2000 Mack RD521400%56,880
1999 Mack RD400%54,373
1998 Mack RD200%8,238
1996 Mack RD NHTSA page01700%
1994 Mack RD NHTSA page100%204
1993 Mack RD NHTSA page100%4,924
1992 Mack RD200%44,701
1991 Mack RD NHTSA page100%39,777
1990 Mack RD200%40,098
1989 Mack RD300%42,394
1988 Mack RD200%41,639
1987 Mack RD221400%41,639
1986 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1985 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1984 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1983 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1982 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1981 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1980 Mack RD NHTSA page100%1,862
1979 Mack RD NHTSA page100%23,000
1978 Mack RD700%136,337
1977 Mack RD1100%199,595
1976 Mack RD500%136,109
1975 Mack RD600%140,250
1974 Mack RD700%141,273
1973 Mack RD400%52,789
1972 Mack RD300%51,766
1971 Mack RD500%20,716
1970 Mack RD300%16,950
1969 Mack RD NHTSA page100%15,002
1968 Mack RD NHTSA page100%15,002

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

8 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.

Mack RD: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure2502
Fuel System, Gasoline2502
Suspension2502
Equipment1251
Service Brakes, Air1251

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mack RD, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mack RD, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mack: all 90 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mack RD: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mack/rd/. 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
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
MACK TRUCKS, INCORPORATED

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 Mack RD model years have the most recall campaigns?
1977 with 11, 1978 with 7, 1974 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mack RD model year has the most complaints?
The 1987 model year, with 2 of the 5 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mack RD name?
Structure: 2 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 2 component mentions. Suspension: 2 component mentions.