Equipment: other: labels (Gillig)
Vehicle recall 81V-006. NHTSA received GILLIG CORPORATION’s report on Jan 7, 1981.
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The short answer
NHTSA received GILLIG CORPORATION’s report on Jan 7, 1981. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 26, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
TIRE PRESSURE AND RIM SIZE INFORMATION MAY HAVE BEEN OMITTED FROM THE VEHICLE TIRE INFORMATION PLATE THAT IS MOUNTED IN THE DRIVER”S COMPARTMENT.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 26, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Equipment: other: labels.
What should you do?
CORRECTED INFORMATION PLATES WILL BE SUPPLIED BY MANUFACTURER WITHOUT COST TO OWNER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 26, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: SCHOOL BUSES AND TRANSIT BUSES.SYSTEM: LABELS; INFORMATION AND CERTIFICATION.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: LACK OF PROPER INFORMATION MAY CAUSE OVER ORUNDER-INFLATION OF TIRES, WHICH CAN LEAD TO AIR LOSS AND, POSSIBLY, LOSS OFVEHICLE CONTROL AND AN ACCIDENT.
- Check a vehicle by its VIN at NHTSA: the recalls still open on it are listed there.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 367 vehicles potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 26, 2026. Updated daily.
- Gillig Gilligand 1977, 1978 and 1979, before the model years listed here
Who is recalling it?
- Made by GILLIG CORPORATION.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 26, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Whether one vehicle or seat has been fixed: only its maker, or NHTSA’s lookup with a VIN, can say.
- This recall names only model years before 2015, which have no pages here. Your VIN, at NHTSA, says which recalls are open on a vehicle.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 26, 2026 and checked Oct 26, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 26, 2026.