Case Study: Aurora Transport halves lease-operator pay processing time and automates fuel tax with Axon Software

How the Admin. Staff at One Oil Field Hauler Saved Their Sanity When They Outgrew Quickbooks

Aurora Transport Ltd., a Grande Prairie, AB oil-field hauler, faced growing pains from outgrowing QuickBooks®: manual, double or triple data entry for lease-operator pay, paper-based fuel-tax spreadsheets, slow ticket entry and invoicing, and long training times. Office Manager Sherry Hafner turned to Axon Software to address these operational bottlenecks and the increasing administrative burden.

Axon Software automated ticketing, lease-operator billing, driver pay and client invoicing, and built fuel-tax calculations into each ticket, cutting lease-operator pay processing from 5–6 days to about 2 days and reducing training time from months to roughly a week. The system made information instantly searchable (hours of paper search to seconds), allowed Aurora to get through a winter without replacing a receptionist, and — according to Hafner — paid for itself within eight to nine months while improving reporting clarity for customers.

Aurora Transport

Sherry Hafner

Office Manager