Vac-Tron Htv 373 Pto, Vac-Tron Htv 573 Pto, Vac-Tron Htv 873 Pto, Vac-Tron Jtv 873 Pto, model years 2015 to 2022. Filed by Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 27 August 2020. 140 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC (Vac-Tron) is recalling certain 2015-2020 HTV573PTO, 2016-2020 HTV373PTO, HTV873PTO, JTV873PTO, and 2021-2022 HTV873PTO vehicles. These vehicles have a rear extremity that extends more than 24 inches behind the rear impact guard.
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. 20V510 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 20V510 cover?
- Vac-Tron HTV 373 Pto, Vac-Tron HTV 573 Pto, Vac-Tron HTV 873 Pto, Vac-Tron JTV 873 Pto, model years 2015-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC (Vac-Tron) is recalling certain 2015-2020 HTV573PTO, 2016-2020 HTV373PTO, HTV873PTO, JTV873PTO, and 2021-2022 HTV873PTO vehicles. These vehicles have a rear extremity that extends more than 24 inches behind the rear impact guard.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A vehicle crashing into the back of the truck could travel under the rear of the truck, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Vac-Tron will notify owners, and dealers will install a remedy kit to prevent vehicles from going under the truck in a crash. The kits and installation will be free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on January 5, 2022. Owners may contact Vac-Tron customer service at 1-352-728-2222.
- 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: “A vehicle crashing into the back of the truck could travel under the rear of the truck, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 20V510 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC |
| System at fault | Structure |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 August 2020 |
| Model years | 2015-2022 |
| 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
A vehicle crashing into the back of the truck could travel under the rear of the truck, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Vac-Tron will notify owners, and dealers will install a remedy kit to prevent vehicles from going under the truck in a crash. The kits and installation will be free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on January 5, 2022. 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 901 notices in the record whose component field names structure. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 20V510, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v510/
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
- 20V508: 2016-2020 JTV873PTO, HTV873PTO, HTV573PTO, and HTV373PTO
- 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 20V510 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9f117a40 - Consequence
ebed2427 - 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.
The wording we hold for 20V510 · how the whole register is watched
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