Resume template · Updated October 2026
Transportation planner resume template for freight
Short answer
Meridian suits a freight transportation planner: skills print above experience, so the transport management system, route tools and analysis you use are read first, then the routes and costs you improved. The fictional sample plans outbound truck freight for a food manufacturer and lowered cost per mile while keeping deliveries on time. This page is about freight planning, not city or transit planning.
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Why Meridian suits a transportation planner resume
Meridian prints a summary, labelled skills rows and then experience, with no colour. Freight planning postings check for a TMS, routing tools and Excel or SQL first, so the skills rows above the jobs answer that before the reader reaches your results.
Second choice: FAANGPath. FAANGPath keeps skills first with firmer full-width rules, a fit for planners moving into analytics roles.
What goes in each section, in Meridian's order
Meridian prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Modes (truckload, LTL, intermodal), lanes or regions, the volume of loads and the TMS. One cost or service result.
- Skills. Rows for planning methods (routing, load building, carrier selection), systems (TMS, routing software) and analysis tools.
- Work Experience. Bullets with cost per mile or per unit, on-time delivery, empty miles, carrier performance and any network change you planned.
- Education. Degree with the year; supply chain, logistics or business fit well.
The sample resume as text
The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.
Samuel Okafor
Transportation Planner, Outbound Freight
Kansas City, MO | samuel.okafor@example.com | (816) 555-0124 | linkedin.com/in/sample-samuel-okafor
Transportation planner booking about 400 outbound truckload and LTL shipments a week for a food manufacturer with three plants. Lowered freight cost per mile while keeping on-time delivery above 96%.
Experience
Transportation Planner, Heartland Pantry Foods, Kansas City, MO (04/2022 to Present)
- Plan about 400 outbound shipments a week from three plants to 70 grocery distribution centers.
- Combined partial orders into multi-stop loads with the routing tool, cutting the share of LTL shipments and lowering cost per mile by about 7%.
- Ran the annual truckload bid for 45 lanes and set up backup carriers for each, so peak-season tender rejections were covered the same day.
- Built a weekly carrier scorecard on on-time pickup, delivery and claims that procurement now uses in reviews.
Logistics Coordinator, Plains Agricultural Supply, Olathe, KS (06/2019 to 03/2022)
- Booked inbound and outbound freight and tracked shipments in the TMS.
- Resolved delivery exceptions with carriers and customer service.
- Audited freight invoices and recovered overcharges each month.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Supply Chain Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City (05/2019)
Skills
Load building, Route planning, Carrier selection, Freight bids, Cost analysis, Oracle Transportation Management, Routing software, Excel, SQL, Carrier negotiation, Clear status updates
How to make the sample yours
State the network
Number of loads per week, lanes, plants and customers. Planning ten loads a week and five hundred are different jobs.
Pair cost with service
Cost per mile or per case shipped, and on-time delivery. Show that you lowered one without hurting the other.
Show carrier management
Carrier scorecards, bids run, backup carriers set up. Planners who manage carriers well save money on bad days.
Make clear it is freight planning
If you search jobs titled transportation planner, some will be urban or transit planning. Use the words freight, carriers and loads early so readers know your field.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- transportation planning
- freight
- truckload
- LTL
- route optimization
- load building
- carrier management
- cost per mile
- on-time delivery
- TMS
- freight bids
- empty miles
Mistakes to avoid
- Mixing freight planning with transit planning language.
- Cost results with no service measure.
- Carrier names with their rates.
- Leaving out load volume.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 7 of 7 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 7 of 7 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 7 of 7 |
Frequently asked questions
Is a transportation planner the same as a logistics coordinator?
Not quite. Coordinators often book and track shipments; planners decide how freight moves, which carriers to use and how to cut cost. Show planning decisions if you made them.
What if a job titled transportation planner is about public transit?
That is a different field, usually with urban planning degrees. This template and sample are for freight; check the posting before you apply.
Which numbers matter most?
Loads per week, cost per mile or per unit, on-time delivery, and tender acceptance or carrier performance.
Should I list the TMS I used?
Yes, by name in skills and in one bullet that shows what you did in it, such as planning, tendering or reporting.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Meridian PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 7 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
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