A dispatcher’s schedule: a day on American hours
You work from Moldova, but the clock isn’t yours: the shift starts in the morning in the state where the company is registered. In Chișinău that is roughly the 15:00 to 00:00 window.
How the day falls
Your day is free
The morning and early afternoon are yours. That is exactly why the course lessons are in the daytime — an honest trial of the schedule before you pay.
The working window
Boards, broker calls, messages with drivers. A full working day, just shifted into the evening.
The market goes quiet
Fewer loads, fewer calls. But the driver is on the road on Saturday too, and that is part of the job as well.
Four time zones — and the broker gives times in theirs
The continental US has four time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern. There are three hours between the coasts. When it is eight in the morning in California, it is already eleven in New York.
A broker always gives times in the pickup location’s zone, not yours. “Pickup at eight a.m.” means eight a.m. where the warehouse is. Getting it wrong by an hour costs a missed pickup and a lost load, so a dispatcher keeps the time-zone map open all day, right next to the board.
US holidays are a story of their own. A holiday means one less working day for pickups, and finding out on the day is too late: Thanksgiving, Christmas and the 4th of July are planned a week ahead.
What this means for your life
You can combine the course with another job: two hours, three times a week. You can’t combine the dispatcher job itself, at first. It is a full shift, and for the first months it takes your whole evening.
In return you get a free morning and pay tied to the US market rather than the Moldovan one.
If the evening window doesn’t work with your family or a second job, better find out before you pay. On the free call the schedule is a separate item.