Bearings for Commercial Vehicles & Trucks
Commercial vehicle bearings are bought by application, not by catalogue chapter: a fleet or parts distributor needs the hub unit or axle set that fits a specific vehicle, identified by the number on the old unit. NKEN supplies truck wheel hub units, DAC wheel bearings and SET tapered kits on exactly that basis — send the unit number or the vehicle application, and fitment is confirmed before anything ships.
Hub units: the complete, sealed assembly
A modern truck hub unit is a sealed, greased-for-life assembly with flange and, where fitted, an ABS tone ring — it is replaced as a unit, not rebuilt. The NKEN hub library holds 194 references with full dimensions and cross-reference numbers published on the product page, so a distributor can match the unit number they already stock and order the NKEN equivalent with the execution — flange drilling, tone ring, seal arrangement — confirmed in the quotation, not discovered on arrival.
SET kits and DAC bearings for axles and trailers
Alongside hub units, trailer and older truck axles run on tapered SET kits: matched cone and cup pairs, supplied as a set so the fitter is not mixing components. The NKEN SET range runs to 311 kits, indexed by SET number and by cone/cup numbers — LM67048/LM67010, for example, is SET6. DAC double-row wheel bearings cover the lighter commercial vehicle positions. All three ranges sit in one catalogue and one finder, so a mixed order is a single inquiry.
Cross-referencing is the service
Truck parts live and die by cross-reference accuracy, so NKEN treats fitment confirmation as part of the product: order by the unit number on the old bearing or by the vehicle model, execution details are checked against the library of cross-references, and any position we cannot match exactly is flagged before payment rather than substituted. Our truck hub unit cross-reference guide in Insights explains the identification process step by step. Distributors can also take the range under their own brand through the OEM programme — laser-marked units in their own colour boxes.