rickorhino,
Create a role and choose View and Deploy Distribution packages.
This will give them the ability to move devices into and out of tasks and start them.
Some things to consider - in order to grant Deploy for packages, it is a dependancy to grant View. This means your technicians will be able to view the packages already created.
Depending on your version of LANDesk - some versions when you grant view packages - it also grants visibility into Directory management, but does not allow them to make changes. I consider this to be a bug - however I am not sure what its official status is.
Regard,
Peter