Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Peterbilt 536, Peterbilt 537, Peterbilt 548, model years 2024 to 2025. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 2 December 2024. 29 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2024 Peterbilt 537, 2024-2025 Kenworth T380, T480, Peterbilt 548, and 2025 Peterbilt 536 trucks, equipped with certain Meritor 10-16K and 18-23K front steer drive axles. The front steer drive axles may have insufficient wheel bearing lubricant.
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: 24KWJ 24PBJ. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V903 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 24V903 cover?
- Kenworth T380, Kenworth T480, Peterbilt 536, Peterbilt 537, Peterbilt 548, model years 2024-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2024 Peterbilt 537, 2024-2025 Kenworth T380, T480, Peterbilt 548, and 2025 Peterbilt 536 trucks, equipped with certain Meritor 10-16K and 18-23K front steer drive axles. The front steer drive axles may have insufficient wheel bearing lubricant.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Insufficient lubrication may cause the wheel hub to overheat, increasing the risk of a fire, or result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair the wheel end with new parts and lubricate the bearings as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed July 21, 2025. Owners may contact Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888 or Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220.
- 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 24KWJ 24PBJ, 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: “Insufficient lubrication may cause the wheel hub to overheat, increasing the risk of a fire, or result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V903 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Power Train:Axle Hubs |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 December 2024 |
| Model years | 2024-2025 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH T380, KENWORTH T480, PETERBILT 536, PETERBILT 537, PETERBILT 548 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Insufficient lubrication may cause the wheel hub to overheat, increasing the risk of a fire, or result in a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair the wheel end with new parts and lubricate the bearings as necessary, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed July 21, 2025. Owners may contact Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888 or Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220. PACCAR's numbers for this recall are 24KWJ and 24PBJ.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Kenworth T380 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Kenworth T480 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 536 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 537 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Peterbilt 548 recalls: 22 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V903, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v903/
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 24V903 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a090a6ec - Consequence
db289af0 - 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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