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2000 Freightliner Business Class Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Sep 21, 2017
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Sep 21, 2017

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2000 Freightliner Business Class. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

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Other / unspecified
Filed Sep 21, 2017
Crash reported

ON AUGUST 22, 2017, MY HUSBAND AND I WERE TRAVELING NORTHBOUND ON I-55 NEAR LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS. A SEMI TRUCK OWNED BY ARNOLD JAMES KNAGGS OF CARSONVILLE, MICHIGAN, WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND. AT APPROXIMATELY NOON ON THAT DATE, TWO WHEELS DETACHED FROM THAT TRUCK. ONE WHEEL CAME TO REST IN THE WIDE GRASSY MEDIAN; THE OTHER WHEEL BARRELED ACROSS THE MEDIAN AND STRUCK THE MINIVAN IN WHICH MY HUSBAND AND I WERE TRAVELING. ALL WINDOWS ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE SHATTERED AND THE SLIDING PASSENGER DOOR WAS RIPPED OFF THE VEHICLE. HE VAN WAS TOTALED. IF MY HUSBAND HAD NOT TAKEN EVASIVE ACTION AT THE LAST SECOND, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEVERELY INJURED OR KILLED. THE ILLINOIS TRAFFIC CRASH REPORT CITES PROBLEMS WITH THE TRUCK TIRES AND NOTES THAT VEHICLE CONDITION WAS THE PRIMARY CONTRIBUTORY CAUSE OF THE CRASH. THE DRIVER WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED CDL AND FOR DRIVING A TRUCK WITH LOOSE OR MISSING WHEEL BOLTS. THE QUESTION 'DID MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATIONS (MCS) VIOLATION CONTRIBUTE TO THE CRASH?' WAS ANSWERED 'YES' BY THE STATE TROOPER ON THE SCENE.

NHTSA ID
11024869
Incident
Aug 22, 2017
Mileage
102,000 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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