Gear Head Debuts Soy

Aug 24, 2023

Managing Editor, Features

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Gear Head Lube has introduced soy-based grease pads designed to provide a less messy, faster and more environmentally friendly way to lubricate tractors’ fifth wheels.

The Iowa-based company debuted the product at the Technology & Maintenance Council's Annual Meeting and Transportation Technology Exhibition.

The patented Gear Head Fifth Wheel Pads have a thin, hard shell so they can be applied by hand without gloves, offering an alternative to conventional fifth wheel greasing methods.

"The use of grease guns or applying grease by spatula is messy and time consuming," said Todd Whiting, Gear Head's director of product development. "Additionally, without measuring the amount of grease being used it can be easy to over-grease or under-grease the fifth wheel."

The grease pads, made from soybeans produced by U.S. farmers, are nontoxic and biodegradable, Gear Head said.

Brian Walker, the company's director of sales and marketing, said the grease pads are both environmentally friendly and driver friendly.

"Fifth wheel service is no longer considered by the drivers to be the messy operation that it has been in the past," he said.

Gear Head's Fifth Wheel Pads are available to ship nationwide and at all Iowa 80 truck stops and other retail locations. Prices listed on the company's website are $11.95 for a box of six pads or $99.49 for a case of 12 boxes.

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