MyTrucking is celebrating the start of grain harvest season, putting together its top tips to prevent admin chaos during the long hours and tight schedules.
Grain harvest season has kicked off. With that comes long hours, tight schedules and complex admin tasks.
The pressure is real and MyTrucking has put together its top tips to prevent admin chaos this grain harvest season.
Truckers at the top of their game
Across Victoria alone, the transport industry moves around 8.8 million tonnes of grain each year between September and January (and total grain harvest volumes regularly top 45 million tonnes nationally).
Despite these efforts, nearly 46 per cent of freight invoices are paid late during harvest. And we know, late payments cause serious cashflow problems for owner-drivers trying to keep trucks on the road.
The solution? Cashflow stress means operators need tools that go beyond pen, paper and spreadsheets.
Horne Ag: Driving smarter systems
One company that continues to lead the way is Horne Ag Logistics. A family-owned business, operated by Jeremy and Carly Horne, Horne Ag Logistics is based in the Western Riverina district of NSW, Australia.
Horne Ag Logistics specialise in bulk commodity transport, handling and storage. They operate B-double and PBS A-double combinations both locally and interstate.
They know the cost of harvest chaos. Before switching to MyTrucking, they relied on load charts and Excel sheets to manage work.
“MyTrucking has helped us the most with fully customisable data reporting. Efficient business starts with effective systems and processes, and a business cannot grow without them,” Horne Ag Logistics says.
“The MyTrucking reporting gives us valuable data with a few clicks of the mouse, which can easily be shared.”
MyTrucking hacks for harvest
- Go Mobile: Snap job paperwork right on MyTrucking’s Drivers App and get instant updates, no more chasing forms.
- Working with Subbies? Use Import and Reports to make working with your subcontractors easy as. Ask about our Cost Rate feature (which allows you to allocate Subbie rates, then report with ease!).
- Split jobs off your 1,000-tonne wheat contract and track what’s left. Multi-day, multi-job? Done and dusted. Also, Repeat Jobs, Repeat Wins: Use Multi-date Select to repeat jobs across your whole harvest window in seconds.
- Customer Portal Power: Invite your customers to view their load volumes and paperwork in real-time – no sensitive information, just what they need.
- GrainCorp Sync: Export jobs from GrainCorp and bulk import to MyTrucking. One step to a streamlined season.
BONUS: Efficient invoicing. Our Xero integration reduces admin bottlenecks, gets owner drivers paid faster and solves one of the main headaches of managing cash flow when working flat out!
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*This article was originally published in Owner Driver – September 2025.
