Recall Register

Peterbilt 378: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 25 recall campaigns for the Peterbilt 378, model years 1987 to 2016. NHTSA has 3 complaints on file for this model line. 17 of the 23 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. 19871
  2. 19881
  3. 19962
  4. 19971
  5. 19983
  6. 19995
  7. 20005
  8. 20015
  9. 20022
  10. 20034
  11. 20043
  12. 20055
  13. 20066
  14. 20076
  15. 20086
  16. 20093
  17. 20102
  18. 20112
  19. 20122
  20. 20132
  21. 20141
  22. 20151
  23. 20161
Peterbilt 378: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2016 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%213,230
2015 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%213,230
2014 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%213,230
2013 Peterbilt 378200%213,791
2012 Peterbilt 378200%213,791
2011 Peterbilt 378200%213,791
2010 Peterbilt 378200%213,791
2009 Peterbilt 378300%214,109
2008 Peterbilt 378600%230,473
2007 Peterbilt 378600%230,473
2006 Peterbilt 37861767%245,617
2005 Peterbilt 378500%32,841
2004 Peterbilt 37831767%31,574
2003 Peterbilt 378400%1,820
2002 Peterbilt 378200%3,312
2001 Peterbilt 378500%63,334
2000 Peterbilt 378500%61,422
1999 Peterbilt 378500%65,941
1998 Peterbilt 378300%7,049
1997 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%6,623
1996 Peterbilt 37821767%7,093
1988 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%12,300
1987 Peterbilt 378 NHTSA page100%12,300

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

3 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.

Peterbilt 378: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering333.31
Engine and Engine Cooling333.31
Service Brakes, Air333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Peterbilt 378, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Peterbilt 378, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

Peterbilt: all 43 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Peterbilt 378: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/peterbilt/378/. 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
PACCAR, 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 Peterbilt 378 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 6, 2007 with 6, 2006 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Peterbilt 378 model year has the most complaints?
The 1996 model year, with 1 of the 3 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Peterbilt 378 name?
Steering: 1 component mention. Engine and Engine Cooling: 1 component mention. Service Brakes, Air: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Peterbilt 378?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.