Dispatch

Responsible for providing planning support for the department including customer communication, updating and maintaining daily shipment information and plate check in along with backing up the Transportation Advanced Planner when needed. Schedule and dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles for conveyance of materials, freight, or passengers, or for normal installation, service, or emergency repairs rendered outside the place of business. Duties may include using radio, telephone, or computer to transmit assignments and compiling statistics and reports on work progress. Essential Tasks 1.Dispatch customer pick up trailers. a.Run and review production schedule report. 2.Manage rail billing for trailers moving by rail. 3.Set up dispatches for used and flat bed trailers. a.Update dispatches on used trailer shipments availability. b.Secure tow away or load out carriers for used trailers. 4.Verify appropriate transportation cost is on purchase orders for used trailers. a.Verify trailer departure for payment. 5.Maintain daily reports 6.Publish finished and shipped trailers reports. a.Maintain Z-Mail (automated customer listing) table. b.Run & Review trailer dispatched to carriers report, send out report to individual carriers. c.Run and review delivery date report to see what trailers have not delivered. d.Update customer pick up/delivery dates 7.Maintain driver folders and hours of service 8.Manage weekly fuel surcharge for carriers. 9.Manage insurance log on current carriers 10.Assist with the verification and distribution of customer supplied license plates. 11.Administrative functions: a.Enter and update shuttle and yard sheets into SAP b.Enter new trailer locations for trailers having off site work done. c.Receive carrier invoicing. 12.Maintain WPO 13.Back up to the Transportation Expeditor and Manager