Load Planner

TransAm Carriers Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Transam Carriers is seeking a fleet-planning professional to consolidate visibility across Concord, Ontario, and coordinate cross-border LTL and truckload moves. You will plan for the whole fleet, pre-emptively map the next moves, and work with dispatchers to ensure trusted execution of the global plan.

You will focus on reducing empty miles, optimizing utilization, and ensuring timely capacity across regions, with the ability to adapt as daily conditions change.

Qualifications

• Have planned or dispatched for a fleet and think in terms of the week, not just the next load.
• Can hold a plan across regions and adapt as the day changes.
• Numbers-driven metrics like empty miles and utilisation guide decisions.
• Cross-border experience is a strong advantage for timing and constraints.
• Able to work with dispatchers and earn their trust to execute the plan.

Responsibilities

• One plan for the whole fleet: where every truck is, when it frees up, and what it does next.
• Match capacity across desks to reveal moves not visible to a single desk.
• Reduce empty miles and deadhead between regions and prove it.
• Pre-plan the next move before a truck delivers, not after.
• Flag where capacity is short or long early enough for sales to act.

Skills

Fleet planning

Cross-border experience

Data-driven

Dispatcher collaboration

Job description

About the role

Transam Carriers runs 120+ trucks out of Concord, Ontario — cross-border LTL and truckload, our own customs desk and cross-dock.

Today, each dispatch desk plans its own trucks. It works, desk by desk. What it cannot do is see the whole fleet at once — so a truck emptying in Chicago and a load needing cover out of the Midwest can sit on two different screens and never meet.

This is a new role, created to fix exactly that.

What you would own

• One plan for the whole fleet: where every truck is, when it frees up, and what it does next
• Matching capacity across desks instead of within them — the moves that no single desk can see
• Reducing empty miles and deadhead between regions, and being able to prove it
• Pre-planning the next move before a truck delivers, rather than after
• Flagging where we are short of capacity and where we are long, early enough for sales to act on it

What we are looking for

• You have planned or dispatched for a fleet and can think in terms of the truck's whole week, not the next load
• You can hold a plan in your head across regions and still change it when the day does
• You are numbers-driven — empty miles, revenue per truck per day, utilisation are the language of this job
• Cross-border experience is a strong advantage: border timing changes what is possible
• You can work with dispatchers rather than over them. This role only works if the desks trust the plan

What we offer

• A genuinely new seat with a clear problem to solve and visible results
• Live fleet data — GPS, utilisation and trip history in systems we build ourselves
• Direct line to ownership, and the authority the role needs to actually work
• Based at our Concord terminal

How we hire

We use an AI phone screen for the first conversation on some roles — you will be told before it starts, and a person makes every hiring decision.

Pay: $62,000/year to start

Canada / US cross-border lanes.