We often hear that full truck load planning should be simple, but that isn’t always the case. You have to be able to cover all the demands of full truck loads, and each of them with their own requirements, such as pickup and delivery timing and location, truck and driver needs, resting times and the number of drivers.
As the order set changes daily, your planners need to be experienced in dealing with these situations and allocating the orders to your own fleet or to external partners. Last minute requests can make it feel like a near impossible job: you know it could be more efficient, but it’s such a complex set of procedures.
