One vehicle. Every season. Every job on the street.
A council does not have a sweeping problem. It has a footpath problem in autumn, a weed problem in spring, a litter problem all year, a mowing problem in summer and, in some districts, a snow and grit problem in winter — and a fleet budget that will not stretch to a specialist machine for each.
The Hako Citymaster is one compact chassis with interchangeable attachments. Sweep in the morning, mow in the afternoon, change the implement in minutes rather than hours. For a district that has to do everything with one vehicle and one operator, that is the whole argument.
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The range
Citymaster 650 — footpaths, laneways and pedestrian areas
The smallest of the range, sized for the places a truck cannot go: footpaths, shared paths, town centre laneways, market squares, campus paths and cycleways. Narrow enough to work around bollards and street furniture, and quiet enough to run early in the morning without waking a main street.
Citymaster 1650 — the all-rounder
The workhorse of the range for most New Zealand districts. Serious sweeping capacity with the flexibility to take on mowing, weed control, washing and winter work. If a council is buying one machine to cover a year of tasks, this is usually it.
Citymaster 1650 ZE — the same job, zero local emissions
Fully electric. No exhaust, dramatically less noise, and running costs that behave very differently from diesel — which matters a great deal when your council has a carbon reduction target it has to report against, and when residents complain about a 6am sweeper outside their bedroom.
For town centres, residential streets, hospital and campus grounds, and any district with an emissions commitment in its long-term plan, the ZE is worth a serious look.
Citymaster 2250 — the largest of the range
For higher-volume routes and larger districts: greater hopper and water capacity, longer between emptying, more productive over a shift. Where the 1650 is the all-rounder, the 2250 is the machine for districts running long daily routes.
Written for the way councils actually buy
We understand this is not a same-week purchase. It moves through a fleet review, an asset management plan, a whole-of-life cost assessment, a procurement process and often a formal tender. We can supply what each of those stages needs:
- Whole-of-life cost modelling against your current fleet
- Emissions and noise data for your long-term plan and carbon reporting
- Demonstration on your own routes, with your own operators
- Referees at other New Zealand councils running the same machines
- Parts availability and service response commitments in writing
- Operator training and refresher training as staff change
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Already working for New Zealand councils
Auckland Council. Tauranga City Council. Napier City Council. Rotorua Lakes Council. Queenstown Lakes District Council. Palmerston North City Council. Gore District Council. Plus the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Napier Port.
Ask us for a referee in a district like yours. Talking to another fleet manager will tell you more than we can.
Frequently asked questions
Can one Citymaster really replace several machines? That is the design intent, and for most districts it holds — sweeping, mowing, weed control, washing and winter work from one chassis with changeable implements. Whether it works for you depends on your task mix and how much of the year each task occupies. A whole-of-life comparison against your current fleet will show it honestly, including the cases where it does not stack up.
How long does it take to change an implement? Minutes, not hours, and it is a one-operator job. That is the practical difference between a multi-purpose machine that gets used for everything and one that quietly ends up doing only its easiest task.
Is the electric Citymaster 1650 ZE viable for a full shift? For the great majority of council routes, yes. It depends on route length, gradients, ambient temperature and how much of the shift is spent working versus travelling. Give us your actual routes and we will model it rather than guess.
Who services these machines? We do, nationwide, from Auckland. Preventative maintenance agreements are the norm for council fleets because an unplanned failure takes a route out of service, not just a machine.
Can we hire or trial one before committing? Yes. A demonstration on your own routes with your own operators is the fastest way to know, and we would rather you did that than buy on a brochure.
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Talk to us about a Citymaster
Council or contractor, we'll walk you through the implement options and what the vehicle does across a full year.