Talking heavy-duty truck wheel hubs with the Timken Co.

By Fleet Equipment Staff
Jul 5, 2016

Wheel hubs are an essential part of a truck’s operational efficiency and safety. I decided to take a pitstop to visit the Timken Co. to talk about all things wheel hubs, seals, bearings and more.

The Timken Co. offers a full aftermarket wheel hub assembly-from seals and bearings to everything in between—and I’m at Timken’s world headquarters in North Canton, Ohio, to talk with Dan Humphrey, Timken’s Manager of Commercial Vehicle Aftermarket about the importance of proper wheel hub maintenance and why fleet managers should be taking a close look at their bearings of choice.

For more on Timken training, visit http://www.timken.com/en-us/products/training/Pages/default.aspx.

Avoiding wheel end maintenance complications

Here are the unintended component service consequences that come from fixing related equipment.

By Jason Morgan
May 18, 2023

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A brake job seems like a pretty straightforward, run-of-the-mill service event, but then the trailer is back in the bay, this time with a wheel end issue. It seems unrelated--leaking lube--but then, as the fleet manager, you think back to that brake job when you had to take the wheel end apart. Did your tech put it back together correctly? Could your service department or provider have caused this issue? Could it have been avoided?