Vehicle report
1998 FREIGHTLINER CONVENTIONAL
This model year
What the record shows
The 1998 Freightliner Conventional is the 15th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1984 to 2018.
The federal record holds 5 owner complaints and 17 service bulletins for it.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.