A professional who reroutes freight shipments to new destinations following request from shipper. Responsibilities include:

• Receives request from shipper for reconsignment or change in destination of freight shipment.
• Searches for original bill of lading, waybill, and freight bills to ascertain original route or destination.
• Telephones station at next scheduled stop on original route and issues instructions to reroute freight shipment.
• Sends telegram to confirm instructions issued over telephone.
• Prepares new bill of lading to record shipper's request for new destination, reconsignment, and route selected.
• May prepare waybills.