Grammar Revision: Questions, Tenses, and Relative Clauses

• Let us review how to ask questions correctly, when to use the present simple or continuous, and how to use relative clauses with who, which, that, and where in logistics.
• Grammar Point
• Example Sentence
• Present Simple
• Mark drives from Chicago to Detroit every week.
• Present Continuous
• Sarah is checking the new carrier packet right now.
• Relative Clause
• This is the broker who works in New York.
• Remember
• Use present simple for routines, schedules, and facts about dispatching.
• Use present continuous for actions happening at the moment of the call.
• Use who or that for people, which or that for things, and where for places.
• Examples
• Do you own your truck?
• Where is the driver parking right now?
• The dispatcher who calls carriers is in Atlanta.
• Common mistakes
• Where you are sending the load?
• Where are you sending the load?
• The carrier which has a truck is honest.
• The carrier who has a truck is honest.

Complete the sentences

• What lanes (you / prefer) ____ for this haul?
• Right now, the driver (fill out) ____ the paperwork in Dallas.
• This is the company (who) ____ leases trucks in Houston.
• Why (he / call) ____ the broker at this moment?
• The agent (who) ____ works in Chicago handles flatbeds.
• How often (they / update) ____ the status in Boston?

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