By sharing equipment, crews were able to fast track road repairs in Gloucester and use specialist equipment to improve Forster's Bullring Ocean Baths.

Gloucester's jet patcher (an automated bitumen pothole patcher that can also lay bitumen and stone topping in one action for larger potholes) had broken down late last year causing the road repair program to fall behind schedule.

Fortunately, Taree had a spare jet patcher that was about to be sold, so the Jet Master was transferred to Gloucester each day, along with Taree operator Jeff Aquilina.

"When our Jet Master was back on the road, we then used both units for a few weeks to catch up some potholing works around the Gloucester region," council's works engineer, Claire Shultz said.

"The road program is now back on track. One of the benefits of being a bigger council is being able to deliver on services to our residents by sharing our resources," council's manager of operations, Dan Park said.

Gloucester work crews were able to pay back the favour a couple of weeks ago, loaning their D6 Dozer to the Forster crew to clean out the sand from Forster's Bullring Ocean Baths, a job made much easier with the larger earthmover.

And it's not the first time that sharing equipment across the region has allowed jobs to be completed on time. 

"We also were able to use Forster's reach mower and slasher when ours was down," Ms Shultz said.

The crews are keeping busy, with more plans to share plant equipment and personnel to enable efficient works across the MidCoast.