Heavy Equipment Repair in Jacksonville, FLA port city runs on iron that cannot sit still.
Mobile heavy equipment repair across Duval County. Job sites off Philips Highway, yards on the Westside, terminals on Blount Island and every I-295 exit in between. We are based just south of the county line, so Jacksonville is home ground.
Mobile equipment repair across Duval County, from the port to the Westside.
Jacksonville has more heavy equipment moving on any given morning than the rest of Northeast Florida put together, and most of it belongs to somebody who cannot afford to lose a day. Port terminals, distribution warehouses, road crews, site work contractors and fleet yards, all running to a schedule that a broken machine wrecks immediately.
We come at it from the south. Our base is in St Johns, just below the Duval line, which puts I-95 exit 329 at CR 210 about as close to us as it gets and the whole I-295 beltway inside a normal working radius. Southside, Mandarin, Baymeadows, the Westside and the Northside are all towns we run to regularly rather than trips we make when it suits.
The work is what you would expect from a city this size. Hydraulic failures on site work machines, electrical faults on machines that live outdoors year round, cooling problems that show up in July, and roadside calls on trucks that quit somewhere between I-10 and the port. Some of it ends up in the shop. Most of it does not need to.
Traffic is part of the diagnosis. Getting a service truck across Jacksonville at 4pm is a different proposition to 7am, and we would rather tell you that on the phone than have you plan a crew around a window we cannot hold.
A crawler dozer with a root rake, worked on where it sits.
Boat diesel engines on the St. Johns, the Intracoastal and the trailer. Cooling, fuel, exhaust, starting faults and engine work dockside or in the yard.
Where our Jacksonville equipment repair calls come from
Where the equipment actually is, and how a service truck gets to it.
01
The port terminals
JAXPORT runs Blount Island, Dames Point and Talleyrand, and the equipment that works them does not get to stop. Container handlers, yard iron and the trucking that feeds all three.
02
The Westside
AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center covers around seventeen thousand acres of the former NAS Cecil Field, and Westside Industrial Park sits out that way too. Big sites, big machines, long distances between gates.
03
The I-295 beltway
Exit 21 at I-10, exit 25 at Pritchard Road, exit 28 at US 1, exit 32 at SR 115. The beltway is how we reach most of the industrial ground on the north and west sides.
04
The Southside and Philips Highway
I-95 exits 339, 340, 341 and 344 feed the Southside corridor. Fleet yards, service contractors and a constant supply of site work off Butler Boulevard.
05
The Northside
Exit 360 at Dunn Avenue, exit 362 at I-295, exit 366 at Pecan Park Road. Imeson Park and the warehouse ground near the airport, plus everything feeding the Dames Point bridge.
06
Downtown and the stadium work
The EverBank Stadium rebuild is a genuinely large civil job with equipment on it daily, and the Four Seasons and Shipyards work on the Northbank keeps the riverfront busy alongside it.
Who calls us
Who we keep running in Jacksonville
The outfits in and around Jacksonville that call a diesel mechanic, and what breaks on them.
Site work and grading contractors
Excavators, dozers and loaders on pads across a city that has not stopped building. When one goes down mid pour week, the fix has to happen where it stands.
Port and terminal operators
Cargo handling equipment at Blount Island, Dames Point and Talleyrand works to a ship schedule that does not move for a hydraulic leak.
Trucking and distribution fleets
Jacksonville is a freight town with rail yards, intermodal terminals and warehouses across the Westside and Northside. Trucks and yard equipment both.
Utility and underground crews
Backhoes, mini excavators and vacuum trucks working in tight urban ground where a breakdown blocks a street as well as a schedule.
Demolition and land clearing
Mulchers, high reach machines and loaders working hard in Florida sand and heat, which is exactly where cooling and hydraulic problems show up first.
Marine and waterfront
A river city with boatyards and commercial vessels, which is the other half of what we do. Marine diesel work sits alongside the land equipment.
Emergency heavy equipment repair in Jacksonville?
Call. Do not fill in a form and wait. The phone is answered around the clock and you will get an
honest answer on that first call about whether we can reach you in time to do any good.
How a Jacksonville heavy equipment repair call goes.
STEP 01
You call
Tell us the machine, the symptom and where it sits. We ask a few questions so the right parts come with us.
STEP 02
We tell you straight
Field job or shop job, and roughly when we can be there. If we are too far out to help today, you hear it on the first call.
STEP 03
We diagnose on site
Pressures, codes, readings. You get the actual cause and a number before a wrench turns on the repair.
STEP 04
Back to work
We fix it, test it under load and clean up. You get told what failed and what to watch so it does not happen twice.
Questions we get
Jacksonville equipment repair questions.
Do you cover all of Jacksonville?
Yes, Duval County end to end. Southside, Mandarin, Baymeadows, Arlington, the Westside, the Northside and downtown. We are based just south of the county line in St Johns, so most of the city is a short run.
How quickly can you reach a job site in Jacksonville?
It depends where in the city and what time of day, and Jacksonville traffic is a real factor. Call and describe where the machine is and you will get an honest window rather than an optimistic one.
Do you work at the port terminals?
Yes, we service equipment around the Blount Island, Dames Point and Talleyrand areas. Terminal access rules vary and we will need to know what is required to get a truck in.
What is the closest interstate exit to your base?
I-95 exit 329 at CR 210 is the nearest one to us. From there the whole I-295 beltway and the Southside corridor are a normal run.
Do you repair equipment on the Westside and at Cecil?
Yes. AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center, Westside Industrial Park and the surrounding ground are all inside our normal service area. I-10 exits 350 through 361 and I-295 exits 21 through 32 are the usual approaches.
Can you handle work on the stadium and downtown projects?
We service contractors working those jobs. Downtown access, permits and site rules are the customer's side of the arrangement, and we will work with whatever the site requires.
Do you work on trucks as well as equipment in Jacksonville?
Yes. Class 8 tractors, dumps, roll-offs and service trucks, roadside or in a fleet yard. In a freight town like this it would be strange not to.
Are you cheaper than a dealer for heavy equipment repair in Jacksonville?
Often, and more importantly you are not paying to transport the machine. What matters more is that we tell you what actually failed and what it costs before the work starts.
Tell us the machine, the symptom and where it sits. If we can help, you will know on the first call. If we cannot get to you in time to do any good, we will say that too.
East Coast Diesel & Marine
Mobile heavy equipment, diesel and marine repair
Serving Jacksonville and the surrounding county
Based in St Johns, FL 32259 (904) 496-2937 · eastcoastdiesel904@gmail.com
Hours: phone answered 24 hours, 7 days
