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Mackay depot, Mackay Harbour
Bulk fuel for Mackay and the Coalfields, run from the harbour since 2011: service stations around town, mine sites out west, and scheduling that takes a North Queensland wet season seriously.
Factory 4, Lot 1 Presto Avenue, Mackay Harbour, QLD, 4740, Australia
In the Mackay Harbour industrial precinct.
Mackay depot line. After hours: Brisbane on 07 3860 9301.
Careers: careers@hillstankers.com.au
Established 2011
Our second Queensland depot
Mackay came four years after Brisbane: opened in 2011 to put tankers where the work is, between the port, the town and the Coalfields behind it. It stretched the network up the coast, and it means Mackay work is run by a Mackay depot, not trucked in from the south.
The depot works out of Factory 4 on Presto Avenue at Mackay Harbour, the working precinct on the seaward side of town. It's a fitting address for a carrier: this is a locality built around boats, cargo and early starts, not office blocks.
The trade is the one we've run since 1960, carried north: bulk fuel delivered safely to retail outlets around Mackay and to mine sites across the Coalfields, on rotating day and night shifts.
The retail side of the run: bulk fuel under the canopy.
Rotating day and night shifts keep the fuel moving.
From this yard
What Mackay does
Retail fuel deliveries
Bulk fuel to service stations and retail outlets around Mackay and the wider region, delivered on rotating day and night shifts, because forecourts don't keep office hours.
Mine site fuel
Fuel out to mine sites across the Coalfields, carried under the same NHVAS-accredited safety management system that runs the whole fleet. This is dangerous goods work, and it's audited like it.
The Queensland chain
Mackay links Brisbane to Townsville in a depot network that runs, in our own words, from Townsville to Newcastle and now Adelaide.
Operating in the tropics
Scheduled around a real wet season
Mackay gets around 1.6 metres of rain in an average year, and most of it lands in the same few months. That's the rhythm this depot works to: a long dry of steady runs, then a wet where roads can flood, site access tightens and every delivery window matters more.
It's the part of Queensland fuel work a southern depot can't feel from a map, and it's why having tankers based at the harbour beats sending them up the coast. When the weather closes in, the calls get made by people who woke up in it: hold, reroute or run.
If your site or store has seasonal access constraints, tell us when you enquire and we'll build them into the schedule rather than discover them in February.
The same system, north of the tropic
Mackay runs under the fleet-wide safety spine, not a lighter regional version of it:
- NHVAS-accredited Safety Management System
- Fatigue and Distraction Management programs
- Real-time driver monitoring and GPS tracking
- Cargo Risk Management on every load
Driving for Hills in Mackay
MC drivers: Mackay hires as contracts grow
Our Mackay driver ads say it plainly: positions are there "to support ongoing contract expansion". That's a depot growing, not backfilling. The work is bulk fuel to retail outlets and mine sites, on rotating day and night shifts, in a modern fleet we maintain in-house.
Previous fuel delivery experience is advantageous, but it's not essential: full paid training is provided. The hourly rate is printed in the ad, not saved for the interview.
The Mackay ad, as at July 2026
- MC Fuel Tanker Driver, full time
- $55 to $60 an hour
- Rotating day and night shifts
- Retail and mine site deliveries
- Full training provided
Listings rotate. The live ad on Seek is the source of truth; what you need to bring is on our careers page.
Quick answers
Before you call the harbour
Who does the Mackay depot deliver to?
Bulk fuel to retail outlets and mine sites across Mackay and the Coalfields. For anything else that moves in a tanker, send a freight enquiry and we'll tell you straight whether it's our kind of work.
Where exactly is the depot?
Factory 4, Lot 1 Presto Avenue, Mackay Harbour, QLD 4740: the industrial precinct at the harbour, on the seaward side of town. Open it in Google Maps.
What if I need help after hours?
If you require after hours assistance, contact our Brisbane depot on 07 3860 9301. During the day, the Mackay line is +61 417 827 398.
Does the wet season affect deliveries?
It's part of operating in North Queensland, and it's built into how this depot schedules. If your site has seasonal access constraints, tell us up front and we'll plan around them.
Since 1960 · Family owned
Need something moved?
Tell us what needs carrying and where it has to go. The team at our Beresfield head office will come back to you with the right answer, not a runaround.