LoadPlan

12/10/2026

🌍 LoadPlan now speaks your language!

The whole platform is now available in English, Lithuanian, Polish and German. Not just the website, but the tools you work with every day:

🚛 3D load planner
📄 CMR form and 23 transport document templates
🧮 LDM, CBM, pallet, transport cost, axle weight and CO2 calculators

Choose your language with the 🌐 button at the top of the page, or go straight to:
🇱🇹 loadplan.eu/lt
🇵🇱 loadplan.eu/pl
🇩🇪 loadplan.eu/de

Everything is free. No trial, no credit card.

PDF documents are still generated in English for now. Localized PDFs are coming next.

Missing your language? Tell us in the comments which one we should add next 👇

Free 3D truck load planner. Plan truck loads, generate CMR documents, and calculate LDM, CBM, transport costs and CO2 emissions. No credit card needed.

08/10/2026

Diesel in Poland dropped by 1.40 zł per litre in eight days. Good news, but for transport companies it is smaller than it looks.

If you are VAT-registered, most of that drop is VAT you would have reclaimed anyway. The real saving is about 0.26 zł per litre, or roughly 79 zł per 1,000 km for a 40-tonne truck.

We broke down what changed on 3 October, what it means per truck, and what to plan for before the cut ends on 31 December.

Read it on the LoadPlan blog:

Polish diesel fell 1.40 zł per litre after the 3 October tax cut, but a VAT-registered carrier saves only about 0.26 zł. What changed, the per-truck numbers, and what to plan for before 31 December.

07/08/2026

⛽ Crude is down. Diesel isn't. Here's why that matters.

Brent crude fell to $82.07 this morning — around 27% below its wartime peak of $113. But if you're running trucks across Europe, you already know the pump hasn't moved anything like that fast.

Fuel prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers. And in Europe, the picture is further complicated by price caps in some markets and full market pricing in others.

What this means right now:

✅ Fuel surcharges are still indexed to a crude level that no longer exists
✅ Carriers who absorbed the spike on fixed contracts haven't recovered it
✅ Shippers are about to start asking for rate reductions
✅ The Hormuz situation is still unresolved — pricing long contracts on today's number is risky

Full breakdown here 👇

🔗 https://loadplan.eu/blog/crude-down-diesel-europe

Carriers — what are you actually paying at the pump this week?

Brent crude is down 27% from its wartime peak but EU diesel is down only 8%. Why refining margins, fixed per-litre taxes, and price lag keep diesel high — and what freight operators should do.

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.