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P/T being part-time:
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The Office opens at 7.00 p.m. and the full time employees leave
when their work is done. (between 4.15 and 5.00 p.m.) The two
part-time clerks start at 4.00 p.m. and close at 8.00 p.m.
Dispatches are on call 24 hours per day 7 days per week.
4.2. (a) TANK DISPATCHERS SECTION:
As indicated in the partial organisation chart the work of this
department is to handle most of the dry freight and included among
this is the ammonia gas, L.P. Gas, Petroleum, Dry fertilizers and
bulk antifreeze to differentiate those in small containers handled
by the freight dispatcher.
Every morning calls are made by the two tank dispatchers to all the
local Co-operatives and ask them whether they need any of the above
products for the following day or any other day. The requirements
of the local Co-operative of the tanks are always expressed in
percentage and tank is normally sent to one specific destination
or local Co-operative at a time.
The loads or requirements are then allocated to drivers after
setting up all the loads.
The drivers are paid according to the number of miles covered and
time taken when loading. So the more loads the driver carries
the greater the amount paid. Naturally the work loads are allocated
naturally according to seniority. The senior driver being given
priority in allocation of duties, and in then eventually paid more
money. In all there are ninety nine (99) pressure tanks, 48 other
tanks for dry bulk and petroleum. The amount of work load varies
depending on the season, the peak season being in spring when
requirements for most of the products under this department is
greatest.
There are twenty five full time drivers operating under one dry
freight dispatcher, all locate in Co-operatives outside MCI
headquarters at Fridley, anothe' forty in all under the otler
dry weight dispatcher (14 based at Fridley and another 26 outside
Fridley in various Co-operatives). The allocation of work loads