Particle Contamination Is Stealing Your Fuel and Margins
Foreign particle contamination is draining money from your trucking operation. Studies from a leading bearing manufacturer highlight a simple but costly truth:
"One of the most common sources of trouble in anti-friction bearings is wear and damage caused by foreign particles."
Efficiency Loss and Accelerated Wear
The problem with particle contamination is more that it ultimately leads to bearing failure - long before that happens it becomes a constant drag on mechanical and operational efficiency:
- Fuel efficiency losses: Extra friction means more diesel burned
- Accelerated wear: Bearings, seals, and lubricants degrade faster, contracting service intervals.
- Higher operating costs: More fuel, more parts, more labor, all eroding margins.
Contaminant particles cut through lubricant film and start a chain reaction of wear, The Wheel End Deterioration Cycle, multiplying debris and compounding efficiency losses over time.
Our Approach
At The Hub Corp, we challenge the idea that these costs are “just the cost of doing business.” That’s why we designed The Xtractor® hub cap with a built-in 3-Stage Magnetic Oil Filter. By extracting wear and foreign particles from the oil bath, The Xtractor helps fleets and operators:
- Keep bearings in rolling rather than sliding contact
- Lower friction torque and fuel waste
- Extend the life of lubricants and components
Foreign particle contamination is a profitability problem. Cleaner hub oil doesn’t just protect bearings, it protects efficiency, service life, and margins.
