Truck Driver

It is a method which helps in the breakdown of the costs into specific activities in order to maintenance of accuracy in the distribution of costs in product costing.

WTS or Warehouse Tracking System is a software application which is specifically designed for the warehouse industry. It uses the system of barcode labels which allows you to track product movement, audits and shipments easily. It enables you to identify each piece of stock by a unique serial number.

Again, another important question that both answers a question about your potential comfort and productivity, and about the company itself. Are the trucks old? If so, they may be perpetually breaking down and harming your ability to be productive. If they continually spend on new equipment, that may be a good sign. Also, will you have a sleeper on the truck? Will you have an air-ride suspension? When you’re sitting in the truck all day, these are potentially important questions.

Wave picking is a technique of assigning orders into groups and release them together, so as to allow several activities to run parallel and complete the task.

I was a mover and a driver, which is the guy who moves the furniture for residential and commercial properties. The driver, if you did good as a mover, you get moved up to a driver. You take your physical and little raise and you start driving the trucks as well as moving the furniture.

It is a process for determining the quantity of machine and manual labor resources necessary to assemble a production.

Cycle time is the time consumed to get and order from order entry to the shipping dock.

Your answers should focus on how well you can review relevant facts, consider various options and select the most appropriate option. Discuss how you factor in variables such as constraints and resources.

It is a demand which is created by the Sales Order or Work Orders next to a particular team.

Some companies pay the drivers to load and unload your freight, while others pay people known as “lumpers” to do it for you. Whether or not you are able or willing to do this part of the job is pretty important, and you should know going in whether you’re doing the heavy lifting, or if others are doing it for you.

Discuss your method of assigning responsibility to the best candidates. How you communicate with employees to make them understand what is expected of them and how you make sure that the employees have the resources needed to carry out specific tasks. You should also chip in your follow-up procedures.

There’s different types of people you’re going to work with everywhere you go. Just be patient and remember you’re there to do a job. Other than that, it’s good pay and it’ll keep you busy and keep you in good physical condition.

When you’re an over-the-road driver, you’re going to be spending a lot of time away from home. It’s only fair for you to know how long you will be home in between. Also, be sure to get a clarification on defining “a day”; for instance, if you are promised two days of home time after a week-long trip, is that two full days, or the remainder of the day after you return to the terminal, then one day after? Some companies will not offer to tell you this information.

You’re mindful of the fact that your role will be a part of a larger whole. You’re forward thinking enough to wonder how you can contribute. And you’re sensitive enough to the company’s goals to see how it fits into their big picture or bottom line. Bonus points if you can flip the question: just name a few of the goals for the company you already know line up with this position and then ask how else a new hire in that position might contribute or accelerate that impact?

You want to know what that certain je ne sais quoi might be that helps employees of this company excel. Your interviewer might be eager to talk about the soft skills involved in the job—which are rarely asked about in interviews. It’s also a great sneaky way to get a sense of culture and what the company will value most to see if you’d be a good or bad fit.

Bonus points if you can cite some of these accomplishments, or have done enough research to say there have been many. This question allows you to show off your excellent listening skills. Look! It’s not all about you! You’re a great and generous colleague! Plus, people love to talk about themselves. It’s a great icebreaker, even for midway or almost-all-the-way through an interview.

This is just like the “what is your greatest strength?” question and should be treated similarly. You should pick accomplishments that show that you have the qualities the company is looking for and this adds value to you as a candidate for the position you are interviewing for. You may have achieved a lot over the years but for the sake of the interview, pick only the relevant ones

They basically asked under a stressful situation, can you handle it; do you have the availability to work strange hours, you don’t have kids at home, you got to be off by 3, you get them from school, or you don’t have another job you have to be at or anything like that or school. They need somebody with open availability.

The five big challenges that companies face today is

☛ Ignoring the continued growth of e-commerce as a channel in the industrial sector

☛ No attention to the potential risk like volatile transportation costs

☛ Over expectation that supply chain management technologies will fix everything

☛ Over-reliance on past performance to predict future sales

☛ Increase complexity added to supply chain operations with implementation of unnecessary technologies

☛ Lack of understanding of the full capacities of suppliers and service

Logistics is referred as the procedure of managing goods, resources and information from the source to the consumers in a manner that it fits the requirements of both parties.