Truck Dispatcher

Work setting

• Transportation

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Monitor personnel workloads and locations
• Perform general office duties
• Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems
• Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations
• Follow-up on issues with work orders
• Keep track of shipments
• Knowledge of cross border dispatching regulations and practices
• Knowledge of highway trucking and associated rules and regulations
• Maintain vehicle operator work records
• Operate computer-aided communications and dispatching equipment
• Operate radio equipment
• Record mileage, fuel use, repairs and other expenses
• Schedule assignments and co-ordinate activities of vehicle operators, crews and equipment