Vac-Tron Cs 870 Gt, Vac-Tron Cs 873 Gt, Vac-Tron Lp Mini 373 Dt, Vac-Tron Lp Mini 373 Gt, model years 2016 to 2020. Filed by Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 20 May 2020. 104 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC. (Vac-Tron), a subsidiary of Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer), is recalling certain 2016-2020 CS870GT, CS873GT, LP Mini 373 DT, and LP Mini 373 GT Vacuum Excavator trailers. The front clearance lamps may be positioned improperly and an insufficient amount of conspicuity tape may have …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
The maker's own number for this recall: VVK0007. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V288 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 20V288 cover?
- Vac-Tron CS 870 GT, Vac-Tron CS 873 GT, Vac-Tron LP Mini 373 DT, Vac-Tron LP Mini 373 GT, model years 2016-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC. (Vac-Tron), a subsidiary of Vermeer Manufacturing Company (Vermeer), is recalling certain 2016-2020 CS870GT, CS873GT, LP Mini 373 DT, and LP Mini 373 GT Vacuum Excavator trailers.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Due to the improper position of the lamps, insufficient reflective tape, and lack of reflectors, the vacuum excavator trailer may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vac-Tron will notify owners, and Vermeer dealers will install remedy kits provided by Vac-Tron, free of charge. This recall began July 14, 2020. Owners may contact Vac-Tron customer service at 1-352-728-2222. Vac-Tron's number for this recall is VVK0007.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall VVK0007, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Due to the improper position of the lamps, insufficient reflective tape, and lack of reflectors, the vacuum excavator trailer may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V288 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 May 2020 |
| Model years | 2016-2020 |
| Vehicles named | VAC-TRON CS 870 GT, VAC-TRON CS 873 GT, VAC-TRON LP MINI 373 DT, VAC-TRON LP MINI 373 GT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Due to the improper position of the lamps, insufficient reflective tape, and lack of reflectors, the vacuum excavator trailer may have reduced visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Vac-Tron will notify owners, and Vermeer dealers will install remedy kits provided by Vac-Tron, free of charge. This recall began July 14, 2020. Owners may contact Vac-Tron customer service at 1-352-728-2222. Vac-Tron's number for this recall is VVK0007.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20V288, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v288/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 20V288 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
41a9266a - Consequence
4cbc61c1 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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