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Dallas, Texas, United States

Responsible for scheduling the transport of heavy haul freight loads to their specified destinations while ensuring the scheduling includes access to distributor yards, wellheads, dock yards, rail yards, and more. Monitor the logistic sustainability ensuring the cargo is picked-up, loaded, transported, and delivered to the intended location in time. Manage logistical processing including customer orders, plan & optimizing shipments into loads, and tender freight to third-party carriers. Provide load exception investigation, reporting and other projects and tasks as assigned by supervisor.• Maintain current shipment information providing updates to the transportation management system while also providing detailed instruction to various customers & associates from other shifts by phone and e-mail. • Provide visibility to management and the customer by tracking, process over-sight, auditing, researching, and troubleshooting operational issues or functions.• Weigh alternative financial decisions in handling rate negotiations with carriers on a spot rate basis and identify cost savings opportunities for the customer before acting. • Coordinate with carriers to ensure on-time delivery by tracking trucks for pick-up, estimating times of arrival and delivery, and recovering loads when necessary

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Provided daily routing and planning of five hubs in the southeast region of the United States. • Confirm all customer stops are in location of logistical distribution keeping business cost in mind when routing to stay under budget. +• Maintain effective communication with hub management.• Continually improved the logistics systems while planning transportation services to anticipate the needs of clients.• Managed cancelled customer orders to maintain inventory and modify logistics routing. • Supported communications as the point of contact for the southeast region hubs. • Served on the first team to start centralized routing as a new department.• Collect weekly and monthly delivery data forecasting route efficiency and coverage.• Developed and implemented new operating standards for centralized routing.• Managed logistics routing for the largest number of corporate terminals in the company.• Develop strategic delivery schedules to meet customer demand and inventory analysis.

Plain City, Ohio, United States

• Responsible for the coordination, scheduling, dispatching, and planning of customer freight shipments. • Managed drivers and freight to maintain compliance with company rules and DOT regulations. • Monitored shipments to effectively meet delivery schedules.• Ability to oversee multiple projects with minimal error meeting frequent and short deadlines.• Assisted drivers with any safety related issues such as accidents, logs, and paperwork.• Build load schedules for each driver daily with varying day-to-day shipments.

East Liberty, Ohio, United States

TEAM LEADER• Resolved service issues in a timely manner, including coordinating and processing returns.• Worked with managers to implement the company’s policies and goals.• Oversaw warehousing and storage practices and housekeeping.• Mentored, coached, and trained 25+ team members.• Identified inefficiencies and made recommendation for process improvements.DRIVER COORDINATOR (2008-2009)• Daily dispatching and monitoring loads, planning daily routes to maximize utilization while maintaining high Level of Service, DOT compliance, scheduling preventive equipment maintenance, weekly KPI reporting, ensuring accurate and timely driver payroll entry, and driver coaching.• Manually created shipments, assigned drivers, and dispatched shipments.• Completed and followed up on all registration and traffic documents.• Resolved problems for customers, warehouses, and carriers.• Completed all necessary U.S. Customs documents and other paperwork.• Assisted with payroll preparation and entered data into cumulative payroll document.

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