Royal Truck & Equipment Traffic Control Vehicle, model years 2022 to 2026. Filed by Alamo Group Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 31 July 2026. 110 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Alamo Group, Inc. (Royal Truck) is recalling certain 2022-2026 Royal Truck & Equipment Class 2 Traffic Control trucks equipped with a Wanco sign board. The solar panel screws may loosen, resulting in a partial detachment.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V502 cover?
- Royal Truck & Equipment Traffic Control Vehicle, model years 2022-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Alamo Group, Inc. (Royal Truck) is recalling certain 2022-2026 Royal Truck & Equipment Class 2 Traffic Control trucks equipped with a Wanco sign board. The solar panel screws may loosen, resulting in a partial detachment.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A dangling or completely disengaged solar panel may hit other vehicles or pedestrians, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Royal Truck will provide instructions on how to remove the self-tapping screws and replace with rivets, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 29, 2026. Owners may contact Royal Truck's customer service at 866-975-0212.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 dangling or completely disengaged solar panel may hit other vehicles or pedestrians, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
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in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V502 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Alamo Group Inc. |
| System at fault | Equipment:Electrical:Accessory Generator:Solar Panel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2022-2026 |
| Vehicles named | ROYAL TRUCK & EQUIPMENT TRAFFIC CONTROL VEHICLE |
What the notice says today
The defect
Alamo Group, Inc. (Royal Truck) is recalling certain 2022-2026 Royal Truck & Equipment Class 2 Traffic Control trucks equipped with a Wanco sign board. The solar panel screws may loosen, resulting in a partial detachment.
The consequence
A dangling or completely disengaged solar panel may hit other vehicles or pedestrians, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Royal Truck will provide instructions on how to remove the self-tapping screws and replace with rivets, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 29, 2026. Owners may contact Royal Truck's customer service at 866-975-0212.
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 4ee021e553b3cf64510eb3c164b732d3…, 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 . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 30 September 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
30 September 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Royal Truck will provide instructions on how to remove the self-tapping screws and replace with rivets, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 29, 2026. Owners may contact Royal Truck's customer service at 866-975-0212.
After: Royal Truck will provide instructions on how to remove the self-tapping screws and replace with rivets, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 29, 2026. Owners may contact Royal Truck's customer service at 866-975-0212.
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How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 26V502, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v502/
The copy quoted above hashes to 4ee021e553b3cf64510eb3c164b732d3…. 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.
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 26V502 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c317f154 - Consequence
ea0ba65a - 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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