LoadPlan

28/06/2026

Question for the forwarders here. We all quote 33 euro pallets for a 13.6m trailer, but how often do you actually load 33?
Most loads weigh out first. The crossover is around 727 kg per pallet (24t across 33 positions). Lighter and you cube out, heavier and you leave with empty floor.
Quick breakdown here: https://loadplan.eu/blog/euro-pallets-truck
On your lanes, space or weight you run out of first?

The textbook answer is 33. The real answer depends on weight, stackability, and axle limits. Learn how the number is calculated and why it is wrong more often than it is right.

08/06/2026

🚀 LoadPlan just launched on TinyLaunch!

We've built an affordable 3D load planning tool for European road freight. Plan your FTL/LTL loads, optimise space and weight, and know it fits before loading the truck — no more eyeballing it.

Check it out here and drop an upvote if you like it:
👉 https://tinylaunch.com/launch/14462

Would mean a lot. 🙌

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17/05/2026

🚛 Empty kilometres are killing European trucking margins in 2026.

With diesel above €2/litre, German tolls at €0.40–0.50/km, and Polish e-TOLL rates up 40% since February, a single 500 km empty return now costs operators around €650 — in real money.

For a 20-truck fleet running at 25% empty rate, that's almost €1 million per year. Wasted.

The European average sits at 20%. Best-in-class operators run below 12%.

We just published a practical guide on how to close that gap:

✅ The real cost of empty kilometres in 2026
✅ Six root causes (most are fixable)
✅ Five strategies that actually work
✅ A diagnostic checklist for dispatchers

🔗 https://loadplan.eu/blog/empty-kilometres

What's your current empty rate? What's worked for your operation?

Empty kilometres cost €1.30/km in 2026. Six root causes, five strategies, and a practical checklist to cut empty rate from 25% to under 15%.

03/05/2026

🚛 New on the LoadPlan blog: How to Choose a Logistics Partner

Choosing the wrong logistics partner costs you more than money - it costs you customer trust, missed production windows, and operational headaches.

After years in European road freight, we put together a practical guide on how to evaluate logistics partners properly:

✅ The three types of partners (carrier vs forwarder vs 3PL)
✅ The 10 criteria that matter beyond price
✅ 7 red flags that mean walk away
✅ How to run a structured RFQ process

Specific advice for European shippers on cross-border compliance, fuel surcharges, and partner selection in 2026.

If you handle freight procurement, this is worth a read 👇

🔗 https://loadplan.eu/blog/how-to-choose-logistics-partner

How to evaluate logistics partners systematically — what to look for, what to ask, the 10 criteria that matter, red flags, and how to run a structured selection process.

27/04/2026

🚛 New in LoadPlan: Manual drag & drop is live

Sometimes the auto-pack algorithm gets it 95% right — but you need to move that one heavy pallet over the drive axle, or pull the ADR cargo to the door, or reorganise by unloading sequence.
Now you can. Just grab and drop.
✅ Full drag & drop control over every item
✅ R to rotate, F to flip, arrows to nudge (Shift = 100mm precision)
✅ LDM, weight, and axle loads update live as you move
✅ Combine auto-pack speed with manual fine-tuning
Auto-pack when you want speed. Manual when you need control. Both modes work together.

Available now in your LoadPlan dashboard.

🔗 loadplan.eu

19/04/2026

Full truck or shared trailer? The answer changes almost every week in European road freight.
New article on LoadPlan covering FTL vs LTL honestly: cost break-even ranges, transit time differences, handling risk, and the partial-load option most shippers forget about. 8-minute read.

https://loadplan.eu/blog/ftl-vs-ltl

Full Truck Load or Less Than Truck Load? Compare costs, transit times, handling risk, and learn when each mode wins. Decision framework for borderline cases included.

18/04/2026

A quick hello from the founder 👋

I'm Mindaugas, and I built LoadPlan after years in road freight forwarding.
The pattern we kept seeing was always the same — overloaded axles, half-empty trailers, CMR waybills filled in by hand, transport costs calculated in Excel. Not because people were careless. Because the tools that could fix it cost €500 a month and took three months to implement.

So we built LoadPlan. Three things every road freight professional needs, in one tool:
🚛 3D Load Planner — auto-packs cargo, calculates axle weights, exports PDF in one click
📄 Document Generator — 22 templates (CMR, packing list, freight order, ADR, more) with your branding
📊 Logistics Calculators — LDM, CBM, transport cost, axle weight, CO2 emissions

€2.99/month. Free 1-month trial. No credit card.

👉 loadplan.eu

Plan and optimize truck loads with 3D visualization. Generate CMR documents, calculate LDM, CBM, transport costs, and CO2 emissions. Free tools + pro plan from 2.99/mo.