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passenger rate clerk
A professional who provides fare information to passengers traveling on nonscheduled or chartered motor trips, using rate tables. Responsibilities include:
- Interviews customer or reviews written requests to obtain data on proposed trips.
- Studies maps to select or lay out and measure travel route.
- Refers to rate tables to gather rate data considering such items as type of vehicle, distance, destination, estimated travel and waiting time, cost of tolls, and passenger or freight service.
- Computes rates, using calculator.
- Prepares written report on rates or informs customer orally.
- May arrange travel accommodations for tourists (travel clerk).
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): charter_representative
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- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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