Mine Spec Vehicle Hire

What does mine spec actually mean?

A mine spec vehicle is a standard 4x4 that has been modified so it can be inducted onto a mine site or a gas project. The base vehicle is the same one you would see anywhere. What makes it mine spec is the safety fitout bolted to it and the paperwork that goes with it, because site access is refused without both.

A typical Giidjaa fitout covers the following:

• Bullbar and driving lights
• ROPS (rollover protection)
• Amber rotating beacon
• UHF radio
• High-visibility reflective striping
• Wheel chocks
• Fire extinguisher and first-aid kit
• Battery isolator

No two sites ask for exactly the same list, so we fit each vehicle to the access standard of the site it is going to rather than to a single generic build. The fleet also covers infrastructure surface spec, underground mining and underground infrastructure spec, and Queensland Safety Together requirements. There is more detail in our guide to what mine spec requires.

Is mine spec hire different from standard ute hire?

Standard ute hire gives you the base vehicle; mine spec hire gives you the site fitout and the paperwork with it. The commercial shape is different too. Servicing and registration are managed across the hire, so the compliance dates that stop a vehicle at the gate stay with us.

Specialist utes for specific site roles

Beyond the standard site ute, vehicles can be fitted for the specific role they will fill on your project. Fire response utes carrying slip-on firefighting units. Dangerous goods and explosive transport configurations for shotfiring crews, and flat bed or tray-back builds where the load matters more than the cab.

These builds are quoted per vehicle against your site's access standard, the role and the hire term, the same way as our standard fitouts. Tell us what the vehicle has to do on site and we will come back with a configuration and a rate.

• Fitter truck hire for field maintenance crews, with service body and tray storage
• Specialist builds including fire response and dangerous goods configurations
• Single cab and flatbed hire where the load matters more than the cab
• Mine spec fitouts for how vehicles are built to your site access standard

Can mine spec vehicles be hired long term?

Yes, and long term is the only way we hire. Giidjaa Hire is a long-term dry hire business rather than a day-rate counter, with a minimum hire term of three months, and hires are normally written to the length of the project. That suits a fleet that belongs to a site for the duration of the work instead of being booked and returned week by week, and it means the commercial terms are settled once rather than renegotiated every time the program moves.

Where a vehicle is likely to stay with the work permanently, hire-to-buy is available on selected vehicles and plant as an alternative to leasing.

Which regions and sites do you service?

Our depot is in Geebung in Brisbane, which covers South East Queensland and reaches out to regional Queensland, including the Surat Basin gas project areas around Wellcamp, Dalby, Chinchilla, Miles, Roma and Wallumbilla. In New South Wales we supply Sydney and regional areas including the central west. In Western Australia our newest operation is servicing Perth and surrounds.

Vehicles are on hire with contractors including JTMEC, MPC Kinetic, SRG Global, Hawthorne Civil, ADCO, Bouygues Construction and Mandana, across gas, tunnelling, electrical infrastructure, civil construction and renewables. City by city detail is on our Brisbane, Toowoomba, Sydney and Perth pages.