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Highly Recommended -
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) has a brochure titled,
TOWING A
TRAILER, BEING EQUIPPED FOR SAFETY
– available as a
PDF download from their website at
www.nhtsa.gov
. Enter the
word “trailer” in their search box and you’ll find it. To get the
downloadable PDF version, you can also go to this address:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/Equipment/towing/
Towing.pdf
REPORTING SAFETY DEFECTS
If you believe that your RACKandROLL product has a defect
which could cause a crash or could cause injury of death, you
should immediately inform the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) in addition to notifying Yakima Products,
INC.
If NHTSA receives similar complaints, it may open an
investigation, and if it finds that a safety defect exists in a group
of vehicles, it may order a recall and remedy campaign. However
NHTSA cannot become involved in any individual problems
between you, your dealer, or Yakima Products, INC.
You may also obtain other information about motor vehicle
safety from the hotline number below.
To contact NHTSA you may either call the Auto Safety Hotline
toll-free at 1.800.424.9393 (202.366.0123 in Washington, DC
area) or write to:
NHTSA
U. S. Department of Transportation
400 7th Street SW, (NSA-11)
Washington, DC 20590
Canadian Customers who wish to report a safety defect to the
Canadian government should write to:
Transport Canada
Defect Investigations
2780 Sheffield Road
Ottawa, Ontario, K1B 3V9
or call 1.800.333.0510
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