Load Planning Manager
GTS Transportation CorpLoad Planning Manager | Asset-Based Trucking
The Load Planning Manager is responsible for maximizing the revenue, profitability, and utilization of the company’s asset-based fleet. This position oversees the strategic planning of loads, equipment, and driver capacity to ensure trucks are consistently positioned for the most profitable freight while minimizing empty miles, downtime, and avoidable o
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perational risk. This is not a traditional dispatch position. The Load Planning Manager is expected to think 24–72 hours ahead and determine the most profitable executable next move for every truck.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop daily and 24–72-hour load plans for the entire fleet.
• Ensure every truck has a planned next move whenever possible before completing its current load.
• Establish and maintain fleet preplanning standards, including the percentage of tractors preplanned before delivery and average hours of forward planning visibility.
• Maximize revenue and contribution profit per tractor, per day, and per total mile.
• Reduce empty/deadhead miles and unnecessary repositioning while recognizing when strategic repositioning creates a more profitable overall move.
• Identify and build continuous moves, reloads, round trips, backhauls, and other network-density opportunities.
• Position trucks strategically based on customer demand, freight availability, lane strength, seasonality, historical performance, and current market conditions.
• Monitor spot-market and customer rate trends, inbound/outbound market balance, and lane performance to support profitable planning decisions.
• Identify trucks at risk of sitting and develop immediate solutions before service or utilization is impacted.
• Analyze loads based on total profitability, including revenue, loaded miles, empty miles, fuel, driver cost, driver hours, appointment requirements, and next-load opportunities.
• Ens