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Module 5Tools and communication110 min read

Dispatch software and tools

A dispatcher runs the truck from a desk, so the desk has to work. This lesson builds your toolkit piece by piece: a spreadsheet that acts as your first transportation management system, the maps and calculators that price a load, the phone and messaging setup brokers and drivers can rely on, the security that protects your carrier's identity, and a daily routine that ties it all together.


In this lesson

  • Your first dispatch system is a spreadsheet you build yourself. Every paid system is the same columns with a nicer screen, and building the columns teaches you what each one means.
  • A tool is only worth paying for when it removes a step you do every day. Buy nothing in your first month except a load board and a phone number.
  • Every tool on your desk holds somebody else's money and identity: MC numbers, driver licences, broker rates. Password managers, two-factor sign-in and backups are part of dispatching, not an add-on.
  • Automate what repeats (check-in texts, email templates, formulas) and never automate what needs judgement (a rate, a signature, a promise, a decision about a driver's hours).

This lesson is part of the full course

Lesson 1 is free. Lesson 17 and the rest of the 21-lesson course (about 37 hours), the final exam, the verifiable certificate and the bonus templates unlock with the full course.

  • All 21 lessons with worked examples, case studies and exercises
  • Final exam and a certificate anyone can verify with a QR code
  • Bonus: profit calculator, load and payment tracker, call and email scripts

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