Responsibilities

Tasks

• Ensure accuracy of completed time sheets, payroll and other summaries


• Monitor personnel workloads and locations


• Advise vehicle operators of traffic and other problems


• Assist with maintenance of communications equipment


• Dispatch personnel according to schedules and work orders


• Dispatch personnel as required by emergency situations


• Follow-up on issues with work orders


• 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