Heil Side Loader Garbage Truck, model years 2025 to 2026. Filed by The Heil Co. and reported to NHTSA on 22 July 2026. 7 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says The Heil Co. (Heil) is recalling certain 2025-2026 side loader garbage trucks equipped with certain HH Technologies ReVamp high voltage cabinets, with part number 372-9585. Water may enter an improperly sealed high voltage cabinet and cause component failure or a short circuit.
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.
Heil's own number for this recall: PN-26-354. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V474 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 26V474 cover?
- Heil Side Loader Garbage Truck, model years 2025-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- The Heil Co. (Heil) is recalling certain 2025-2026 side loader garbage trucks equipped with certain HH Technologies ReVamp high voltage cabinets, with part number 372-9585. Water may enter an improperly sealed high voltage cabinet and cause component failure or a short circuit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Electrical component failure may lead to an unexpected vehicle shutdown, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, an electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Heil will install a protective enclosure, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 28, 2026. Owners may contact Heil's customer service at 1-866-275-4345. Heil's number for this recall is PN-26-354 .
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Heil calls this recall PN-26-354, 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: “Electrical component failure may lead to an unexpected vehicle shutdown, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, an electrical short increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V474 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | The Heil Co. |
| System at fault | Equipment |
| Reported to NHTSA | 22 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2026 |
| Vehicles named | HEIL SIDE LOADER GARBAGE TRUCK |
What the notice says today
The defect
The Heil Co. (Heil) is recalling certain 2025-2026 side loader garbage trucks equipped with certain HH Technologies ReVamp high voltage cabinets, with part number 372-9585. Water may enter an improperly sealed high voltage cabinet and cause component failure or a short circuit.
The consequence
Electrical component failure may lead to an unexpected vehicle shutdown, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, an electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Heil will install a protective enclosure, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 28, 2026. Owners may contact Heil's customer service at 1-866-275-4345. Heil's number for this recall is PN-26-354 .
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 de504693aa118c126161df82698f5a5b…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 2,632 notices in the record whose component field names equipment. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 29 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 26V474, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v474/
The copy quoted above hashes to de504693aa118c126161df82698f5a5b…. 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 Heil notices we hold
- 25V749: 2023-2025 side loader garbage trucks equipped with certain Agility Fuel Solutions CNG Fuel Systems, using part number 10300466
- 25V525: 2018-2020 front end loader garbage trucks
- 25V524: 2021-2022 front end loader garbage trucks
- 25V523: 2024 front end loader garbage trucks
- 25V500: 2020-2023 Side Loader garbage trucks
- 18V642: 2014-2016 Rear Loader, Side Loader, Front End Loader and Rolloff Body/Hoist garbage trucks
- 16V525: model year 2014-2016 Petroleum, Crude, Dry Bulk and Flatbed trailers manufactured January 1, 2014, to June 18, 2016
- 14V761: model year 2000-2014 Petroleum Pull Trailers manufactured August 29, 2000, to September 12, 2014
All 10 Heil 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 26V474 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
7bc13cad - Consequence
78047820 - 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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