Kenworth L770, Peterbilt 520, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by PACCAR Incorporated and reported to NHTSA on 19 January 2026. 219 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2026 Kenworth L770 and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 520 vehicles. The right-hand stand-up (RHSU) configuration on the steering cross-shaft may become stressed and fail.
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.
Paccar's own number for this recall: 26PACA. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V022 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 26V022 cover?
- Kenworth L770, Peterbilt 520, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2026 Kenworth L770 and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 520 vehicles. The right-hand stand-up (RHSU) configuration on the steering cross-shaft may become stressed and fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A steering cross-shaft that fails can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and repair the steering cross-shafts and replace any damaged or broken cross-shafts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 13, 2026. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 and Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Paccar calls this recall 26PACA, 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 steering cross-shaft that fails can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V022 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | PACCAR Incorporated |
| System at fault | Steering |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | KENWORTH L770, PETERBILT 520 |
What the notice says today
The defect
PACCAR Incorporated (PACCAR) is recalling certain 2026 Kenworth L770 and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 520 vehicles. The right-hand stand-up (RHSU) configuration on the steering cross-shaft may become stressed and fail.
The consequence
A steering cross-shaft that fails can cause a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and repair the steering cross-shafts and replace any damaged or broken cross-shafts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 13, 2026. Owners may contact Peterbilt's customer service at 1-940-591-4220 and Kenworth's customer service at 1-425-828-5888. PACCAR's number for this recall is 26PACA.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to b6eddb405466016174500dfd2fc6eb1c…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2026014, recorded 19 January 2026 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 26PACA, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 26V022, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v022/
The copy quoted above hashes to b6eddb405466016174500dfd2fc6eb1c…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Paccar notices we hold
- 26V544: 2027 Peterbilt 567, 579, 589 and 2027 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990
- 26V485: 2027 Peterbilt and Kenworth
- 26V442: 2026-2027 Peterbilt 579 and 2027 Kenworth T680 tractors
- 25V795: 2026 Peterbilt 567 and 589 trucks
- 25V569: 2024-2026 Kenworth T680, T880, and W990 trucks
- 25V353: 2024 Peterbilt 367, 2026 Peterbilt 548, 589, and 2024-2026 Peterbilt 567 trucks
- 25V182: 2021-2026 Peterbilt 220, 2022-2026 Kenworth K370, and 2020-2026 K270 Medium-Duty Battery Electric
- 25V181: 2022-2025 Peterbilt 520, 579, and 2021-2025 Kenworth T680 trucks
All 138 Paccar 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 26V022 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8b082a3e - Consequence
76af0275 - 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 26V022 · how the whole register is watched
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