TRACK TRAILER BUYS
TRAKMASTER, PIONEER
GASON SELLS ICONIC RV BRANDS
TRAKMASTER AND PIONEER TO THE
MANUFACTURER OF TVAN, TRACK TRAILER.
Australian offroad camper trailer
manufacturer Track Trailer has snapped up
Trakmaster Caravans and Pioneer Campers.
Track Trailer director Gerard Waldron and
Wayne Gason, the managing director of
Gason, the company that formerly owned
Trakmaster and Pioneer, jointly announced the
acquisition on April 2.
This deal, which will see these iconic RV
brands stay in Australia, has been in
negotiation since early December 2019.
“As a board, we have assessed it over the
past year and being a family-owned business
of 75 years in October, we felt we wanted to
come back to our core business in Ararat
(Victoria),” Mr Gason said.
Track Trailers on the left, a Trakmaster and Pioneer
on the right, at Outback HQ.
He said that Gason had recently invested over
$6 million within its core businesses of
manufacturing equipment for the farming/
agriculture sector.
Mr Waldron said: “The Australian RV industry
was already on notice 12 months ago that the
federal RVSA (Road Vehicle Standards Act)
legislation would bring light trailers into a
similar compliance scheme to that existing for
cars and trucks. The challenges of this and the
slow economy were already drivers of
industry consolidation. Track Trailer
recognised this and was already seeking
opportunities to expand its offering. The
opportunity to acquire these two highly
regarded brands with compatible design and
production systems seemed ideal.”