Truck, Track and Marine

Minimising downtime when trucks need a service or emergency repairs is a strong motivator for Truck, Track and Marine owner Zane Marshall.

Marshall moved his home-based mechanical repair business to the former Northland Waste site, in Hudson Road Warkworth, in December. The site is large enough to accommodate a fully equipped workshop, as well as the adjoining service bays.

“We understand that every hour a truck is off the road costs the operator money,” Marshall says. “They can lose thousands of dollars a day, so our turnaround on jobs is as fast as we can make it.”

Marshall grew up in Leigh, where his dad was a commercial fisherman. After leaving Mahurangi College, he did a mechanical apprenticeship in Silverdale before heading to sea to work on oil tankers, and then on to Australia. He spent two years as ground crew for a helicopter company on Barrow Island and later, in Papua New Guinea. This was followed by a couple of years as an underground mechanic at various gold mines in and around Kalgoorlie.

This diverse experience means that he and his team can tackle most heavy equipment jobs, from small four-wheel drive tippers to eight-wheel transport and logging trucks, as well as earthmoving equipment, commercial boats and farming equipment.

The workshop team has extensive hydraulic diagnostic experience and eventually Marshall hopes to expand his company and take on another apprentice.

“We’re a one-stop shop that can also service and repair on site. The field service trucks can do most jobs, which saves on transport costs, but sometimes you just have to make the call and bring it in because you need the full workshop to do the repair.”