Truck Dispatching 101
Are you looking for a new and exciting career in the transportation industry?
The trucking industry plays a vital role in the world's economy and the trucking industry continues to grow. There is no better industry to start your career!
Becoming a truck dispatcher (also known as a freight dispatcher) can be an incredibly rewarding experience, but success doesn’t come overnight. You need to consider everything from how to navigate a load board and start a freight business to how to negotiate contracts and find and work with carriers
A truck dispatcher’s job is essentially to manage freight on behalf of a carrier. That includes using load boards and personal connections to locate freight that needs to be shipped, speaking to brokers, conducting negotiations, and eventually dispatching drivers and setting up their routes. In many cases, the position also includes some back-end work like reviewing truck drivers’ logs and tracking their hours.
In this course, you will learn the steps of how to become a dispatcher for truck drivers and offer some useful tips on how to run a successful truck dispatcher business.
This course covers the fundamentals you need to know as a dispatcher, some common words/terminologies used in freight dispatching.
This course is geared to teach freight dispatching from scratch. Learn everything you need to start working. In this course you will learn about trip planning, load boards and dispatching software's. We provide you with all the tools for success!
So Let’s get started.