Drive axle assembly

A heavy goods vehicle, comprising a drive axle assembly, said drive axle assembly comprising a hollow hub, a wheel body mounted rotatably on an outer periphery of the hollow hub, a planetary gear including a first planetary gear stage and a second planetary gear stage, each of the first and second planetary gear stages including a sun gear, a ring gear, a planetary carrier, and planetary wheels mounted rotatably in the planetary carrier and meshing with the sun gear and the ring gear, with the planetary carrier of the first planetary gear stage, the ring gear of the second planetary stage, and the wheel body being non-rotatably connected to each other, with the ring gear of the first planetary gear stage being non-rotatably connected to the sun gear of the second planetary gear stage, and the planetary carrier of the second planetary gear stage being non-rotatably connected to the hollow hub, a drive shaft axially guided through the hollow hub and the sun gear of the second planetary gear stage, said sun gear of the first planetary gear stage being non-rotatably mounted on a vehicle-distal outer end of the drive shaft, an annular disk having an axial opening and a plurality of boreholes in radially surrounding relationship to the axial opening, and a screw and pin connection having pins inserted through the boreholes of the annular disk into boreholes in the hollow hub to non-rotatably connect the annular disk to the hollow hub.