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15,800 Volvo Heavy-Duty Trucks Ordered Off the Road in U.S.
The U.S. has ordered owners of 15,800 Class 8 Mack and Volvo brand trucks to park their rigs until AB Volvo can fix a defect that could cause abrupt loss of steering control.
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The U.S. has ordered owners of 15,800 Class 8 Mack and Volvo brand trucks to park their rigs until AB Volvo can fix a defect that could cause abrupt loss of steering control.
The unusual order from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration targets certain 2016-2017 model Mack Titan and Volvo VNL VNM and VNX tractors. Volvo Trucks says the vehicles are missing bolt used to ensure the halves of a new two-piece steering shaft design stay attached to each other.
Volvo alerted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this month that it might have installed 19 of the defective assemblies. The truckmaker has since flagged a second steering shaft defect that affects the same pool of trucks.
Volvo tells The Wall Street Journal that 87% of the affected trucks already have been taken out of service. About 6,300 of those rigs have undergone an interim fix to get them back on the road until Volvo can replace the two-piece steering shaft with a one-piece unit.
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