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Fred Loring

Fred Loring

Dallesport,WA

Summary

Yard operations professional with focus on efficient operations and team success. Proven history of managing materials, maintaining safety protocols, and ensuring smooth workflow. Known for effective collaboration and adaptability to changing needs, leveraging organizational and problem-solving skills.

Overview

51
51
years of professional experience

Work History

Yard Lead

Coastal Farm & Ranch
02.2018 - 10.2025
  • Supervised daily yard operations, ensuring efficient workflow and safety compliance loading and unloading truck arranging the produces in yard using forklift
  • Trained team members on equipment usage and safety protocols, enhancing overall performance.

Developed and implemented process improvements

that streamlined yard operations and reduced delays.

  • Led team meetings focused on performance metrics and strategic planning for yard management.
  • Facilitated communication between departments to enhance operational efficiency and customer service.
  • Mentored junior staff, fostering skills development and promoting a culture of teamwork and excellence.
  • Participated in recruitment efforts to identify qualified candidates that contributed positively to the overall success of the organization''s goals within the yard lead role scope.
  • Established a positive work environment, fostering teamwork and promoting continuous improvement efforts among staff members.
  • Enhanced yard efficiency by implementing effective communication and coordination strategies among team members.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of yard operations with other departments.
  • Facilitated problem-solving sessions among team members to address challenges proactively within the yard operations context.
  • Maintained organized work area by cleaning and removing hazards.
  • Collaborated with other departments to optimize production workflows.

Associate

Azure Farms Mill
10.2015 - 11.2017

Operated and maintained flower mill machinery for efficient production. Unloaded grain trucks using stand-up and sit-down forklifts. Bagged and palletized various grains for distribution. Loaded trucks with processed grains for delivery.

Operations Assistant

The Home Depot
03.2015 - Current
  • Ensure the store is stocked and ready for business every day, as well as provide merchandise loading assistance to customers. Load and unload trucks, move material from the receiving area throughout the store
  • Skills Used
  • Forklift operater, stocking, Load and unload trucks

Dump Truck Driver

Professional Pavers and Construction Co.
07.2014 - Current
  • Delivering and unloading Gravel, Dirt, and asphalt to there Job sites and equipment to be used on there Jobs

Truck Driver

Dahle Orchards
05.2014 - 06.2014
  • Loading using a forklift transporting Cherry to Cherry Grower in The Dalles, Or
  • Skills Used
  • Loading using a forklift

Long Hall Truck Driver

Hood River Juice Company
09.2008 - 05.2014
  • Transporting bulk Juice in a 43 ft Food grade Tanker to California.

Long Hall Truck Driver

Willis Shaw Express Inc.
03.2008 - 09.2008
  • Transporting perishables in a 53 ft Refer Trailer

Long hall Truck Driver

Owner / Operator
10.2007 - 03.2008
  • Transporting perishables in a 53 ft Refer Trailer

Owner / Operator

Hill Moving services
06.1975 - 07.2007
  • Packing loading household goods in 53 ft Van and delivering Door to Door in 48 State also unloading into Warehouses for storage.

Warehouse and Truck Driver

Lester Moving & Storage Co
05.1993 - 07.1995

Skills

  • Route Planning
  • Loading and unloading
  • Shipping and receiving
  • Warehouse operations
  • Yard management
  • Positive attitude
  • Strong work ethic
  • Good communication
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management

LINKS

  • Http://www.linkedin.com/pub/fred-loring/29/79/263/en
  • Http://www.viewbug.com/member/floring1960
  • Https://www.facebook.com/floring1960?ref=bookmarks

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • I have Bean a Truck Driver for over 20 yrs, wile on the road I have taught my self to use Computers and some social Medea Marketing skill, I also am a self taught in Digital Photographer and also have some editing skills with photo shop, I only went as far as the 9th grade in School, That means I'm basically self educated all the way around, as a young man I spent about 6 yrs in the Furniture Business as a Warehouse man and then a Salesman, because of that I have wt I believe to be, above average people skills which I've bean able to use to my benefit all my life.
  • Driving Truck is the way I chose to successfully raise and support my family but it's not all that I am, because of my lack of educational credentials, it's a tool that I have used to get to this point in my life, So with that said I'm always looking for a new direction and new challenges going foreword I honestly believe that, wants I decide to do something there is nothing I cant accomplish, given the rite training , that just the way my mined works.

Timeline

Yard Lead

Coastal Farm & Ranch
02.2018 - 10.2025

Associate

Azure Farms Mill
10.2015 - 11.2017

Operations Assistant

The Home Depot
03.2015 - Current

Dump Truck Driver

Professional Pavers and Construction Co.
07.2014 - Current

Truck Driver

Dahle Orchards
05.2014 - 06.2014

Long Hall Truck Driver

Hood River Juice Company
09.2008 - 05.2014

Long Hall Truck Driver

Willis Shaw Express Inc.
03.2008 - 09.2008

Long hall Truck Driver

Owner / Operator
10.2007 - 03.2008

Warehouse and Truck Driver

Lester Moving & Storage Co
05.1993 - 07.1995

Owner / Operator

Hill Moving services
06.1975 - 07.2007
Fred Loring