An unfilled logistics desk can lead to late pickups, missed appointment windows, uncovered loads and freight waiting for someone to move it. Behind every load that arrives when promised is a coordinator who booked the carrier, a dispatcher who covered the driver and a planner who built the route.
Equiliem evaluates freight-specific experience, systems fluency and desk capability to help organizations identify people who can manage a live board with minimal ramp time. Many organizations turn to us after internal recruiting efforts have failed to attract experienced coordinators and dispatchers, many of whom are already employed and not checking job boards. Carriers, brokers and shippers rely on workforce continuity to maintain service levels, carrier relationships and pickup and delivery commitments. Equiliem supports logistics leaders with scalable staffing, recruiting, credentialing and workforce solutions that cover both short-notice and long-term hiring needs.
When a dispatcher gives notice or a busy season stretches the team, Equiliem supplies experienced coordinators who can pick up a board within days rather than weeks. Our logistics staffing keeps a resignation from becoming your operations manager's second job.
For long-term hiring needs, we help organizations identify load planners, analysts and logistics managers whose experience aligns with your systems and carrier network. A specialized logistics recruiter screens against the freight you actually run, whether LTL, full truckload or international, and based on the TMS on your desks. Logistics headhunters know that experienced professionals are often too busy managing today's freight to search for tomorrow's opportunity. Our recruiters stay connected with dispatchers, planners and logistics leaders across freight modes and markets, helping us reach professionals whose systems knowledge and operating experience align with the work.
Our screening is tailored to the role and assignment: we screen for relevant experience and qualifications, review available documentation, and coordinate applicable client-specific requirements. Depending on the role, that may include DOT hazmat training certificates, customs and import experience, customs broker licenses, industry certifications such as ASCM’s CLTD, employment eligibility verification and background screening.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
Our dispatcher quit on a Friday and I was personally covering the board the following Monday, which is not a sustainable plan when you have your own job. Equiliem had someone experienced in the seat in just over a week. She had run a bigger board than ours, so honestly the desk got better, not just covered.
Customs paperwork is one of those things where a mistake costs real money and shows up weeks later. The coordinator Equiliem placed had done entries for years and it was obvious within days, the port stopped being a black hole for us. I did not realize how much demurrage we had been quietly eating until it stopped.
I was skeptical a recruiter would understand what makes a good dispatcher because most people think it is just answering phones. Equiliem asked about our freight mix and our TMS before they sent a single resume, which told me they had done this before. The two people they placed are both still on the desk.
We have used them for three logistics hires over two years, a planner, an analyst, and a manager, and all three stuck. Every time, the candidates came already vetted for the systems we run, so the interviews were about fit instead of basics. It has made this the one hiring lane I do not worry about.
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For more than 30 years, Equiliem has operated as a family-owned company supporting the workforce behind North America’s critical infrastructure, including the desks that keep freight moving. We take these roles seriously at every level, from a contract coordinator covering a season to the manager who owns the carrier relationships, with applicable screening coordinated for the assignment.
A manufacturer's freight spend had grown forty percent in two years with nobody really owning it. We placed a logistics manager in 28 days who came in and rebid the carrier base within their first quarter. The next year's spend came in under budget for the first time in three, and on-time delivery went up while it happened.
A carrier's night desk went empty when their dispatcher left with a week's notice, and the after-hours phone started rolling to the owner's cell. We placed an experienced dispatcher in 8 days. Night coverage stabilized immediately, and the owner got his evenings back, which he mentions every time we talk.
A consumer electronics importer had containers accumulating demurrage at the port because entries were not being filed on time. We placed a coordinator with customs entry experience in 21 days. The filing backlog cleared inside a month, and the demurrage line on their freight bill went back to being a rounding error.
A regional fleet was running more empty miles than its margins could carry, and the planning was being done off a spreadsheet between other jobs. We placed a dedicated load planner in 19 days. Within two months their empty mile percentage had dropped enough that the CFO asked what had changed.
For Employers
An experienced dispatcher or coordinator, usually one to two weeks. A logistics manager who can own carrier strategy runs three to five weeks. We quote the honest number up front so you can plan coverage.
Against your actual operation: freight mode, TMS, carrier mix and shift. References come from people who supervised the work, and we review the certification and hazmat training documentation a role requires.
Yes, including desks in different time zones, with one account contact for all of it.
Contract coverage for a season or a leave, contract-to-hire, and direct placement recruiting through the manager level.
Contract staff can be replaced within days. Direct-hire engagements may include a replacement guarantee based on the terms of the specific engagement. Flag it early and the desk never goes uncovered.
For Job Seekers
Dispatchers, coordinators, load and route planners, freight brokers, analysts, and logistics managers.
Both, plus contract-to-hire. Contract desks are a good way to see an operation before you commit to it.
Yes. CLTD, hazmat training records and customs credentials, reviewed and documented so onboarding does not stall.
We learn your freight background and the systems you know, match you to a desk that fits, and stay in touch after you start.
No. Job seekers are never charged for Equiliem placement services.
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