CHURN ’N LEARN
He has a voice that can sound like gravel being raked across concrete and, when the mullet’s given time to grow, there’s the deep-etched appearance of a ‘worked hard, played hard’ rocker from the’70s.
Don’t be fooled, though. There’s more to Scott Harvey than meets the eye or raps the ear. Much more. And, while the image and the character perhaps accurately reflect younger years lived hard and to the hilt, innate acumen has nurtured and flourished in the fateful roll between risk and reward.
In fact, there are moments in random conversation when even Scott seems genuinely awed by the evolution of a life that has seen a knockabout young bloke from the New South Wales Hunter Valley, not entirely sure or even concerned of what tomorrow might hold, forge a family business that, today, spans one side of the country to the other.
“Yeah, I try not to think about it too hard. It can give me a headache,” he laughs, but the seriousness is not lost.
“There’s no way we thought it would ever grow to where it is now.”
The ‘we’ in the comment is wife and business partner Regina and, logically enough, Scott and Regina Harvey are the foundation of SRH Milk Haulage, a proudly specialised company with almost 70 trucks and a wide array of Byford and Tieman tanker configurations nowadays hauling around one billion litres of milk a year.
Still, in a phone conversation from a company depot at Poowong in Victoria’s Gippsland, there’s a mix of humility and gratitude in his tone as Scott recalls the creation of SRH in 1996.
“I’d been doing a lot of different things up to that point, including weekend work in tankers to the Oak milk
