Vehicle recall 00V221000 · August 14, 2000
Transcraft Eagle, TL2000 and 2 more models
Vehicle description: flatbed trailers.
Source: NHTSA data as of September 22, 2026. Last refreshed Sep 23, 2026, 2:43 AM UTC.
- Summary
- Vehicle description: flatbed trailers. The wrong material specification was furnished for the vertical gussets of the bumper. This would allow the bumper to fail by folding under the trailer at lower impact forces than allowed. These bumpers do not meet the requirements of FMVSS no. 223, "rear impact guards."
- Consequence
- Failure of the rear bumper could allow vehicles involved in front end collision with the rear end of the trailer to run under the rear end of the trailer causing vehicle damage to the trailer/vehicle and could result in bodily injury to vehicle occupants.
- Remedy
- Dealers will add two steel bars to the vertical gussets of the rear bumper.
- Notes
- Owner notification began August 28, 2000. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact transcraft at 1-800-950-2995, extension 399. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).
Recall details
- NHTSA campaign
- 00V221000
- Reported to NHTSA
- August 14, 2000
- Filed by
- TRANSCRAFT CORPORATION
- Owner notification
- August 28, 2000
- Vehicles potentially affected
- 1,236
- Initiated by
- NHTSA’s Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance
- Components
- Structure › Body › Bumpers
Vehicles covered
As listed by NHTSA. A recall usually covers only some vehicles of each model and year, often a production date range.
- Transcraft Eagle (1998-2000): 2000, 1999, 1998
- Transcraft TL2000 (1998-2000): 2000, 1999, 1998
- Transcraft TL3000 (1998-2000): 2000, 1999, 1998
- Transcraft TL80K (1998-2000): 2000, 1999, 1998
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