New Borcat to hit the roads, JOST like that

Borcat Trailers is currently building a new five-axle dog combination for Camsons.

Based on Borcat’s Ultra Lite model, the 20m Performance-Based Standards (PBS) combination will be driven by a Mercedes Benz rigid six-wheeler. The unit is expected to run round the clock, six days a week.

“Camsons is one of our long-time customers,” says Borcat Trailers Managing Director, Paul Gallagher. “Camsons are your one-stop shop for haulage needs, so they needed a combination that can do multiple jobs with the same unit. They already have two other combinations like this and are clearly very happy with them which is why they are adding a third unit to their fleet. This PBS unit is a little less than 20m long which makes access into plants and sites easier. The longer combinations can make getting in and out of sites very difficult. Plus, our Ultra Lite models always look good on the road.”

Borcat Trailers has been in operation for over 60 years. It was founded by Angelo Borg and Paul Muscat in Sydney in the late 1950s. After parting ways some years later, Angelo ran Borcat on his own before selling the business in 2008 to Paul Gallagher and John Thompson.

They continued to operate out of the original factory in Girraween for a while before steady growth prompted them to move to a bigger location in Wetherill Park. Being closer to the M4 and M7 motorways, the new location provides better access to its customers.

Earlier this year, Paul purchased the remaining 50 per cent of John’s shares becoming the sole owner of Borcat Trailers. Paul is excited to see what that future unfolds for the company.

Borcat Trailers supplies tipper truck and trailer combinations predominately to the quarry sector.

“We have a large customer base that we service from our Wetherill Park site with new builds and servicing,” Paul says. “We also sell a range of spare parts on-site and through our website. We even receive orders via our Facebook page. Over the years we have listened to our customers to design the lightest trailer combination we could, offering light tare weight and years of trouble-free operation. We use only leading brands from OEMs when it comes to components, like the JOST and Rockinger couplings used in this build. JOST out-preforms other couplings for service life, which is the reason why Camsons specify it on all of their new builds.”

The RO-500 Rockinger coupling on this unit is an air-assisted unit that Borcat has been using for Camsons’ trailers for many years.

“Camsons like how easy the unit is to service and these couplings offer them a better service life over other brands they have used in the past,” Paul says. “My professional relationship with JOST Australia has been going on for over 13 years. We have used a lot of JOST and Rockinger couplings in our products since we bought the business. However, for Borcat, the relationship is as long as the business itself. Back in the day when semi-trailers were the flavour, Borcat would use a lot of JOST landing legs and we have only continued this tradition. In fact, such is our trust in their products that we sell a lot of JOST products over our spare parts counter. The team at JOST is very professional and in our experience no matter who the sales representative or area manager is at any time, if there is an issue they never back away from it, they get it fixed and get things back working again. We are the same here at Borcat; our customers are everything to us, so in case of any issue we want to get them back on the road ASAP.”

One of the other reasons Paul and his team trust JOST is for its parts availability.

“When you think of ease of service and rebuilding or replacing parts, you want the OEM to have what you’re looking for and this is always the case with JOST,” he says. “Borcat prides its self on providing quality built product that gives operators years of trouble-free service. That is what we want in our OEM suppliers, and that is why we use JOST products in our builds.”