The heavy-truck side of North Brooksville sits along its western edge. Cement Plant Road ties into Cobb Road, Cobb Road carries the US-98 truck route around the city, and where it meets US-98, truck weigh stations sit just to the west. North of town, the US-98 and US-41 split sends freight on toward Citrus County. The rigs on those roads get their repairs in our heavy bays on Donto Way or, when they cannot move, from a mobile technician.
Cement Plant Road and the Cemex loadout silos
The Cemex Brooksville South Cement Plant at 10311 Cement Plant Road, about half a mile from the CDP line, is an integrated operation with 2 Portland cement lines, a 150 MW power plant and a coal yard. Under a 2012 state permit, its second line may produce up to 1.8 million tons of cement a year, loaded out through 2 silos. Cobb Road serves the plant and the quarry alike.
If your tractor works that loop, the duty is short, heavy and dusty. Each load means a climb back up to speed with full weight and a loaded stop at the other end, which works the brakes, the clutch on a manual transmission and the cooling system. Plant dust clogs intake filters and cakes the cooling stack. Time spent waiting to load, with the engine idling, keeps the exhaust cool and the particulate filter loading. Those are the systems we check first on a truck from this corner of the county.
The Cobb Road weigh stations and inspection-ready brakes
A scale house is a bad place to discover a brake problem. Federal rules require an annual inspection of each commercial motor vehicle and expect the driver to check the truck before every trip, but the defects that put trucks out of service tend to build up between those checks: brakes out of adjustment, air leaks, cracked drums, worn linings, flat or damaged tires and lights that have quit.
An automatic slack adjuster that keeps needing a wrench is pointing at something: worn camshaft bushings, a tired adjuster or trouble in the foundation brake. Adjusting it again just postpones the problem. Our technicians repair compressors, governors, air dryers, valves, chambers, slack adjusters, drums, linings and air disc brakes. The brake systems page goes deeper on air brake repair.
US-98 northwest and US-41 north toward Citrus County
Past the split, US-98 runs 20 miles to Homosassa Springs and US-41 runs 19 miles to Inverness. Tractors heading out on those roads trade the plant’s stop-and-go for steady highway work, and the wear moves with it: injectors and turbochargers piling up hours, fifth wheels and kingpins under constant load, and steer tires that show any alignment problem as uneven wear.
Heavy bays and roadside help for North Brooksville trucks
Kenworth, Peterbilt, Mack, International, Volvo, Western Star and Freightliner tractors all come through, powered by Detroit, Cummins, Caterpillar or Volvo engines, and RDI Power is Caterpillar certified. For a truck that cannot move, a mobile technician can diagnose it where it stopped and handle air leaks, electrical faults and many other repairs on site; mobile diesel repair in North Brooksville explains how. Fleet accounts can reach roadside help 24/7, and everyone else can call (352) 433-3800 on weekdays.
Before it heads back toward Cobb Road, each truck gets a photo inspection of tires, brakes and suspension, and our labor warranty on the repair runs 3 years / 36,000 miles. See semi and heavy-duty truck repair for the complete list, and for the truck route through the rest of the county seat, see Brooksville semi truck repair.