Each profession has its own specifics of work, and a specialist has a certain range of rights, according to the legislation, the labor contract and production standards. What is the responsibility of the forwarding driver?
Documentary base
As you know, the tasks of the expedition include targeted delivery of commercial or other goods to a specific destination.
Functional duties of the forwarding driver are presented in detail in the official job description.
Each organization can expand and supplement the instructions at its discretion. When hiring, a member of the expeditionary service should carefully read the contents of this document and confirm with his signature his consent to work with such conditions.
general characteristics
A typical driver’s instruction - an employee of a delivery service is small in size. It includes only 5 main paragraphs. These are general provisions, sections with the rights and obligations of the forwarder, the principles of interaction of the employee with the higher authorities and other departments of the company or non-profit organization in which he works.
A separate paragraph is devoted to questions of official responsibility of the employee within his authority. 
Each paragraph has several subparagraphs that gradually reveal its contents.
Work obligations
What are job responsibilities of a forwarding driver? The section on the general provisions on the work of an employee of the expeditionary department explains the essence of the driver.
The main task of the employee in this position is the process of driving a vehicle (one or several in turn), which belongs to a particular organization, and the timely delivery of vehicles for loading and unloading official cargo, as well as their delivery with escort to the desired address.
Interaction with superiors
The driver dealing with delivery issues is subordinate to the head of the corresponding logistics department. The Director, taking the place of the head of the organization, appoints and dismisses freight forwarders, guided by the Labor and Civil Codes, statutory documents, various rules, job descriptions and other agreements and documents governing his activities.
The expedition is directly related to the problem of material liability for the property being moved. 
Therefore, the forwarding driver, whose duties are the transportation of goods, largely depends on Art. 138 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and Art. 11, dedicated to liability issues. Based on these articles, an employment contract and an agreement on full liability for tangible property are developed. The documentation prescribes measures of influence in relation to the responsible person in case of non-compliance with the safety of property, values in the process of transfer, transportation, processing or sale.
The driver-forwarder, whose duties can be performed by his partner or another employee, is relieved of liability at the time of the performance of work tasks - it is borne by the employee performing logistics and other functional tasks in a certain mode.
Logistics Officer Functions
Job description of the forwarding driver explains in detail the functionality that makes up the forwarder’s work, which includes:
- driving a car (of any type and brand);
- filling out travel documentation;
- vehicle maintenance, timely repair and storage;
- acceptance and delivery of goods from the warehouse and to the destination.
The duties of the driver-forwarder of the truck also include the following functions:
- checking packaging or containers for integrity;
- drawing up reporting documentation, inspection certificates, and inventory results;
- accounting for shortages and damage to the delivered goods, elimination of breakdowns and malfunctions in the vehicle (not requiring highly specialized skills);
- maintaining a clean and tidy state of the workplace and equipment;
- performance of official tasks from the immediate and general manager, their deputies.
The forwarding driver, whose duties are detailed in the labor contract, can avoid unnecessary workload or duties if he carefully reads its contents.
Driver rights
The use of official documents in practice will protect the rights of the employee in case of disagreement with the bosses or clients of the organization. Controversial issues, illegal coercion to work during off-hours, lack of observance of the interests of the forwarder or violation of labor standards, work and rest regimen additional liability - all this can be challenged in court on the basis of the text of the work instruction.
The job description of the forwarding driver declares the following rights of the employee:
- the right to propose to management various work proposals and issues within its competence;
- require compliance with labor standards and relevant conditions;
- the right to use official documents - from job descriptions to orders;
- the right to inform the head of the found faults, defects, problems in the operation of the reporting equipment and to request replacement or repair of the above.
Material liability
Of course, any rights imply the existence of certain duties. 
The freight forwarder is liable in the amount of 100% for violation of the regime of transportation of goods and their safety. Material assets must be delivered efficiently and on time. Failure to fulfill tasks and assigned responsibilities entails fines, compensation at the expense of wages and dismissal in case of detected criminal abuse of work position, bringing to administrative and criminal liability (in case of theft and other violations).
A violation may also be an abuse or excess of existing powers, unlawful use of a workplace and official advantages, abuse of rights, violation of the general legislation of the Russian Federation. Internal orders, charters, labor regulations, and job descriptions should not be violated.
Compliance with the rules also includes the relevant requirements of safety and fire safety at workplaces.
Damage, theft of property, neglect, improper storage or causing material damage to the organization also leads to the imposition of punishment in the form of administrative or criminal measures. Compliance with the interests of the company includes the preservation of commercial and business secrets, the safe use of the client base without the right to transfer information to unauthorized persons.
Ethical aspects
Violation of trade secrets is the most serious of official crimes. 
However, violations of the ethical sense include rude behavior, violation of the rules of courtesy and behavior in relation to customers. The driver will also be responsible if false or distorted information is provided to his supervisor. 
Interaction with other units and superiors should not be based on deception, shifting responsibility to third parties.
The forwarding driver, whose duties are detailed in the job description and the employment contract, has the right to develop his skills and in the future count on career advancement. 
The competence of the forwarding driver is a great opportunity to develop professionally within one or several organizations, gradually gain the necessary managerial skills and the ability to control the multitasking and diverse work of the expedition service.
Workplace guarantee
In general, the duties of the forwarding driver constitute a guarantee of the rights to wages, leave and appropriate remuneration for work, which must be respected by the authorities. But the employee must also show responsibility in matters of fulfillment of his duties in order to, in turn, avoid legal proceedings.
