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Overall responsibility: Takes orders from customers and assign them to available units/carriers. Communicate load information to units/carriers. Interaction with customers for sales.
Key areas of responsibility
1) Experience with weights and dimensions
2) Experience with axle weights on highways
3) Experience with payloads
4) Knowledge of planning loads
5) Driver interaction
-Collect drivers daily hours of service
-Collect, enter, and audit the loaded weights into Axon on completed loads.
-Take drivers requests for booking time off and enter into Axon
6) Axon (enter orders and dispatch to trucks)-Enter order from customer into Axon
-Establish load/unload times and places/directions
-Organize any additional services as required (ie. Trailer wash, border vet, feed, scale, health papers, etc.)
-Assign a unit or carrier to load
-Change order status
-Dispatch the assigned units
-Contact verbally to advise on load location, expected tonnage, and estimated timeline
-Send information to satellite
-Enter truck routing
7) Satellite tracking using Shaw Tracking
8) Experience with geographical regions
9) Experience with customs paperwork
10) Experience with permits
11) Procure orders via customer sales calls
12) Knowledge of pricing loads within target
13) Experience with maintenance repairs
-Planning and scheduling maintenance/repairs on fleet equipment, deal with on road repairs.
14) After hours on call rotation with company cell phone, summary must be given to cross shift/cross division
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
Additional Skills
- Ensure proper functioning of equipment
- Perform general office duties
- Monitor personnel workloads and locations
- Provide customer service
- Price orders
Work Setting
- Transportation
Ability to Supervise
- More than 20 people
Work Location Information
- Urban area
Type of service experience
- Trucking
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
Dispatcher Specific Skills
- Record mileage, fuel use, repairs and other expenses
- Process and transmit information and instructions
- Operate computer-aided communications and dispatching equipment
- Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders
- Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment
- Act as liaison between customers and drivers
- Keep track of shipments
- Follow-up on issues with work orders
- Knowledge of cross border dispatching regulations and practices
- Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
Business Equipment and Computer Applications
- Word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
- Electronic Mail
- Database software
- General office equipment
- Internet browser
- Dispatch management service software
- Monitoring and tracking software
Work Site Environment
- Non-smoking
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