Vac-Tron Htv 373 Pto, Vac-Tron Htv 573 Pto, Vac-Tron Htv 873 Pto, Vac-Tron Jtv 873 Pto, model years 2015 to 2020. Filed by Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 27 August 2020. 134 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC (Vac-Tron) is recalling certain 2016-2020 JTV873PTO, HTV873PTO, HTV573PTO, and HTV373PTO vehicles. These vehicles do not have side clearance lamps, rear clearance lamps, side or rear reflect reflectors. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …
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.
Vac Tron's own number for this recall: VVK0011. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V508 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 20V508 cover?
- Vac-Tron HTV 373 Pto, Vac-Tron HTV 573 Pto, Vac-Tron HTV 873 Pto, Vac-Tron JTV 873 Pto, model years 2015-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC (Vac-Tron) is recalling certain 2016-2020 JTV873PTO, HTV873PTO, HTV573PTO, and HTV373PTO vehicles. These vehicles do not have side clearance lamps, rear clearance lamps, side or rear reflect reflectors.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The lack of clearance lights and reflectors, may make the vehicle harder to see, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vac-Tron will notify owners, and dealers will prepare field remedy kits which will include the necessary parts and instructions to resolve this noncompliance issues. These field remedy kits will be provided to authorized Vermeer dealers to install, free of charge. The recall began October 27, 2020.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Vac Tron calls this recall VVK0011, 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: “The lack of clearance lights and reflectors, may make the vehicle harder to see, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V508 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 August 2020 |
| Model years | 2015-2020 |
| Vehicles named | VAC-TRON HTV 373 PTO, VAC-TRON HTV 573 PTO, VAC-TRON HTV 873 PTO, VAC-TRON JTV 873 PTO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The lack of clearance lights and reflectors, may make the vehicle harder to see, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Vac-Tron will notify owners, and dealers will prepare field remedy kits which will include the necessary parts and instructions to resolve this noncompliance issues. These field remedy kits will be provided to authorized Vermeer dealers to install, free of charge. The recall began October 27, 2020. Owners may contact Vac-Tron customer service at 1-352-728-2222. Vac-Tron's number for this recall is VVK0011.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 20V508, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v508/
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.
Other Vac Tron notices we hold
- 20V510: 2015-2020 HTV573PTO, 2016-2020 HTV373PTO, HTV873PTO, JTV873PTO, and 2021-2022 HTV873PTO
- 20V206: 2012-2020 MC833SDT, MC835SDT, MC855SDT, and MC873SDT Vacuum Excavator Trailers
- 20V204: 2012-2020 MC833SDT, MC835SDT, MC855SDT, and MC873SDT Vacuum Excavator trailers
- 20V201: 2012-2020 MC555SDT, MC533SDT and MC573SDT Vacuum Excavator trailers
- 20V059: 2016-2020 LPSDT trailers
- 19V442: 2015-2019 LP873SDT Heavy, Vacuum Excavator-dual axle trailers
All 7 Vac Tron campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
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 20V508 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
641d1cf0 - Consequence
74cc116b - 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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