Today, the auto shipping industry is rife with some very interesting career opportunities. The industry includes many various positions and the career opportunities are infinite. The industry is looking for full time and part time employees to fulfill a wide variety of job duties. As in all industries, they are constantly on the lookout for devoted, motivated, hard working and qualified people to fill many challenging and cutting edge positions in every corner of the business. While the auto shipping industry is rather new on the scene, it is quite advanced and continuously reinventing itself. Little wonder there are so many promising career opportunities here offering advancement even to the new, inexperienced jobseeker.
Jobs can be found the usual way: through classified advertising, car dealers, and online bidding sites. There is demand for auto shipping of general and specialized kinds, shipping of multiple or single vehicles, special shipping of traditional, vintage, collectible, customized or sports cars or various kinds. People move often nowadays. The various jobs available include auto-mover truck driver, shipping dispatcher, customer service representative, driver car hauler, CDL driver, military-vehicle shipping positions, truck fleet manager, and various auto mechanic positions, from novice through intermediate to senior, and many more.
Truck driver is the most fundamental and obvious job required by the industry. But here the job is far more complex and requires more responsibility as the driver is accountable for loading and unloading vehicles onto the carrier trailer, inspects each vehicle before delivery, interacts with the vehicles owner at pick up and drop off as well as the task of driving his incredibly heavy and cumbersome load over miles and miles of roads, some good, some not so much. Not too mention the high value of his cargo and to some vehicle owners, an emotional value as well. The vehicles on the carrier may need to be picked up and unloaded in many different states, delivered across borders, and one job can go on for weeks before it is concluded. This is truly no job for the cream puffs, but far more interesting and enjoyable than driving the milk truck and the pay is oh, so much better.
The dispatcher in the auto shipping industry is actually a travel agent who takes orders and then lets the customer's specifications be known to the trucking company. The dispatcher must establish communication between the customer and driver as to pick up, delivery and transportation times and certainly the cost of the entire process. The dispatcher/travel agent is very much involved in the planning of a customer vehicle's trip, meaning that person must be highly organized and articulate. A carrier with many vehicles will have orders to deliver them to many differing destinations and the cost analysis in this type of project while still allowing for maximum customer service and profit for the shipping company is not a task for the faint-hearted or easily fatigued.
The client service representative does not have to get into the vehicle trip planning business, but this person must courteously deal with exacting customers and provide them with all the pertinent, detailed information required, to include quotes by phone or email. Then his duty is to place orders with the dispatcher, who then liaisons with the company.
Arguably, the most critical of all the jobs in the auto shipping industry is that of the diesel mechanic. There would not be an auto transport company without this position. The routine duties of the job is to ensure that the traveling trucks are in good mechanical order and safe for the driver and the cargo. The job requirements are advanced and numerous. The rewards are high pay and high esteem.
And last but certainly not least, the auto processor is the one who performs the duty of processing the customer's vehicles between the various terminals the company routes them through.
Many companies will offer certified classes in the basic positions. Community colleges, trade schools, and even on the job training are offered for many of the other positions.
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