Overview
Tasks
- Monitor personnel workloads and locations
- Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems
- Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders
- Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations
- Keep track of shipments
- Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
- Maintain vehicle operator work records
- Process and transmit information and instructions to co-ordinate the activities of vehicle operators and crews using dispatching equipment
- Record mileage, fuel use, repairs and other expenses
- Respond to urgent calls from individual who find themselves in life threatening situation and who require assistance
- Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
