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🚛 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 Choose a Logistics Partner — A Practical Guide for Shippers 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.

🚛 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

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

FTL vs LTL: Choosing the Right Shipping Mode for European Road Freight 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.

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

LoadPlan — 3D Truck Load Planning & Logistics Tools 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.