Lovepreet Singh Brar
Brampton,Canada
Summary
I am an industrious, responsible, reliable, and serious graduate of International Business Management from Mohawk College with a global understanding of consumer preference, Transportation, Supply Chain Management and Safety-focused Motor Vehicle Operator committed to on-time transport and delivery of goods and personnel. Ambitious, career-focused job seeker, anxious to obtain an Transportation Enforcement Officer position to help launch career while achieving company goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AZ Driver
New Malwa Express
Mississauga, ON
03.2022
- Transporting goods safely to and from specified locations
- Crossing USA/ Canada Border daily basis for Michigan, Detroit, New York
- Maintaining an accurate record of all pick-ups and drop-offs, rest periods, mileage covered, fuel consumption, and toll fees
- Ensuring that the company truck is labeled with the correct hazard class placard when transporting dangerous goods
- Appropriately planning driving routes to ensure that goods are delivered to customers in a timely manner
- Regularly inspecting and maintaining the company truck to ensure that it is roadworthy
- Regularly communicating with company dispatchers to inform them of completed deliveries and delays
- Promptly notifying the supervisor of any major mechanical issues, traffic violations, and accidents involving the company truck.
AZ Driver
DST Transportation
Mississauga, ON
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Customer service
- Written and verbal communication
- Planning and organization, loads and containers
- An outstanding driving record without accidents or major traffic violations
- Ability to adapt to changing conditions, troubleshoot equipment, and find new routes when needed
- Completing a daily truck log and submitting mileage reports
- Conducting daily vehicle inspections and reporting any problems
- Complying with company and government regulations and rules
- Securing cargo and dealing with hazardous materials safely, as needed
- Communicating with dispatchers and other drivers using onboard radios or computers
- Paying for goods and receiving payments from clients
- Performing emergency repairs like patching tires when needed.
Dispatch
Seaboard Transport
North York, ON
07.2019 - 03.2020
- Dispatches and arranges schedules for drivers and vehicles; assign driver routes, destinations and timelines
- Coordinates with drivers to resolve any issues, problems, or concerns that arise during delivery
- Dispatches drivers in a systematic order to ensure there is no overlapping or backtracking of routes
- Collaborates with stores and advises of drivers’ schedules; addresses any concerns or route changes
- Records bill of ladings for incoming drivers; ensures correct locations are receiving products
- Reviews reports to identify priority for deliveries to ensure that locations have an adequate supply of petroleum products
- Answers and responds to incoming calls related to fuel outages at stores; works with internal partners to resolve issues
- Strategically planning, coordinating, routing and implementing driver and dispatch schedule for thirty company trucks and fifteen contractor’s trucks on daily basis for with the GTA, Montreal and Ottawa
- This includes routing for around four hundred deliveries a day
- Scheduling dedicated drivers for pickups during the day from various locations
- Day to day coordination with the unionized drivers and helping them to accomplish deliveries within the assigned time frames
- Working alongside sales team, inventory, receiving and invoicing to accommodate various day to day issues pertaining to clients
- Handling customer requests and prioritizing/tweaking the daily schedules to meet the customer’s requirements
- Constantly monitoring the traffic and climate to ensure that the corrective measures are taken on time to avoid delays in pickups, deliveries and switches
- Monitoring the GPS systems to ensure that the driver is following the best of the routes available
- Coordinating with in different DC’s to facilitate the sooth and timely flow of inventory
- Reviewing driver’s performances based on the scorecard as prepared by the company
- Ensuring that the proper procedures are followed in case on an accident
- Coordinating and helping the driver to report and dill in accident reports.
Dispatch
Heera Transport
Mississauga, ON
08.2018 - 06.2019
- Plan loads and routes for the drivers and schedule their pickup and delivery appointments
- Coordinate and organize the delivery runs in a way that ensures improved transit times
- Use knowledge of North American geography to research and determine the most cost efficient and economical routes
- Assist dispatchers in troubleshooting and resolving day-to-day issues and activities
- Monitor route and work productivity, report on trends and recommend changes to continually improve productivity and routing efficiency
- Ensure proper communication with the drivers and the customers and ensure customer portals are constantly updated
- Ensure accurate data for new customers and review post route performance and adjust service time and time windows
- Manage Customs (PARS/PAPS/ACE/ACI) documentation and records (relevant contract requirements, route changes, relevant maps and driver details)
- Monitor any sudden route changes or road construction issues and establish new routes for timely deliveries, booking loads from Load link, getting the loads entered and dispatch to drivers on timely manner
- Assisting in Accounts receivables and payables, following up if any late or non-payment
- Communicate effectively at all levels of an organization – internally, as well as with customers and vendors
- Assisting with the driver salaries and other financial decisions, analyze transportation planning opportunities to reduce transportation cost
- Enforce safety procedures such as monitoring driver reports to ensure equipment safety
- Efficiently dealing with pricing, load planning, business development, customer operations.
Dispatch
XPO logistics
Mississauga, ON
08.2017 - 01.2019
- Generating and maintaining a master list of all routes and trips
- Maintaining current, organized files on each route, ensuring that all fields include information needed to describe the route and delivery requirements
- Assisting drivers with routing directions, delivery issues and communicating service requirements
- Ensuring route coverage if a driver is absent or unavailable
- Advising the client of all changes in route, accidents, breakdowns, emergencies or any other event disrupting service
- Delivery routing- all greater Toronto area
- Completing incoming customer surveys and driver compliance follow up
- Responding to customer and client emails
- Updating inbound reports in Excel
- Performs other duties and assignments as required
- Identify the individual needs and wants of each client for each freight movement
- Inputs all relevant data for each freight movement into computer system
- Ensures all necessary information for each order is communicated effectively to all Carriers
- ProcurementRepresentativesandteammembersthroughtheappropriatecommunication channel
- Problem-solves client specific freight issues from the point of order placement through to completion
- Collaborates and aid other team members in delivering optimal transportation service solutions, continually updates clients as to the status of each order as required
- Calls out to all existing accounts to ensure they are satisfied with the level of service received
- Suggests improvements that XPO can make to increase their level of satisfaction
- Inquiries about additional available shipments to increase business
- Solicits referral business from all accounts
- Advises all pick-up and delivery points about XPO to solicit new opportunities
- Provides office support duties such as answering phones, taking messages and transferring phone calls to the appropriate personnel
- Performs related duties as assigned by the Operations Manager and General Manager.
Education
General Arts and Science - General Business
Niagara College
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON06.2015
International Business Management - Business Administration
Mohawk College
Hamilton, ON01.2014
MBA - IT, Marketing And Logistics
Maharishi Dayanand University
New Delhi, India01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Botany, Zoology, Soil
University Of Delhi
New Delhi, India01.2011
Skills
- A self-persuaded, leadership quality, relational abilities
- Composed and verbal, ability to work independently
- Strong interpersonal and Communication skills
- Deal with people tactfully and have good problem-solving ability
- A valid AZ License and a Part of visible minority
- Vehicle Inspection,Revenue Generation
- Vehicle Maintenance,Materials Transport
- Daily Logging,DOT Compliance,Relationship Building
- Multilingual
Accomplishments
- Presidents award in National Cadet Corps
Certification
- Valid AZ license
Languages
English
Full Professional
Punjabi
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Telugu
Full Professional
Urdu
Elementary
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
AZ Driver
New Malwa Express
03.2022
AZ Driver
DST Transportation
10.2020 - 03.2022
Dispatch
Seaboard Transport
07.2019 - 03.2020
Dispatch
Heera Transport
08.2018 - 06.2019
Dispatch
XPO logistics
08.2017 - 01.2019
General Arts and Science - General Business
Niagara College
International Business Management - Business Administration
Mohawk College
MBA - IT, Marketing And Logistics
Maharishi Dayanand University
Bachelor of Science - Botany, Zoology, Soil
University Of Delhi
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