# How to reach VPs of Sales at logistics and freight companies Last updated 3 November 2026 Reaching VPs of Sales at logistics and freight companies on LinkedIn takes a clear angle, and HeyLead can run this outreach for you. ## What weighs on logistics VPs of Sales VPs of Sales at logistics and freight companies sell capacity on lanes. They need shippers who will commit volume. Empty capacity on some lanes weighs on them. Shippers who switch for a small price difference also weigh on them. They push back on tools that promise volume without knowing their lanes. HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard. ## Why a specific opening angle matters These executives hear from many people. A generic message gets ignored. An opening angle that fits is to ask which lanes they most need shippers for this quarter. This shows you understand their daily work. HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now. ## What to do to start your campaign You type a 1-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before. Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up. It does a profile view, a follow, and a comment on a recent post. It sends an invitation with a note, an opening message, up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro, with InMail and email fallback. 1. Type a 1-sentence brief in your client. 2. Review the drafted campaign. 3. Press Launch to start the outreach. ## The brief to type into HeyLead Use this brief to target VPs of Sales at logistics and freight companies. The brief sets the ICP fields. The industries are logistics, retail, and manufacturing. The seniority levels are cxo, vp, director, and manager. The company sizes are 51-200, 201-500, 501-1000, and 1001-5000 employees. HeyLead reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. ``` Find VPs of Sales at logistics and freight companies to ask which lanes they most need shippers for this quarter, targeting industries logistics, retail, manufacturing, seniority cxo, vp, director, manager, and company size 51-200, 201-500, 501-1000, 1001-5000 employees. ``` ## How HeyLead handles replies Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. A reply that could mean 2 things gets 1 short question back. A question your facts can't answer is held for you. "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days. Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot. Invitations, not-now check-ins and meeting nudges are not held. It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into. ## Campaign goals and setup There are 6 campaign goals. You can sell a product or service, find a job, hire people, find partners or investors, find a vendor, or research interviews. Hire people, find partners or investors and research interviews work with a custom brief. Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT. The hosted backend is not. It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. It works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. This was tested on ChatGPT Pro. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings. ## Questions people ask ### Does HeyLead post on my behalf? HeyLead reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. ### How much does HeyLead cost? Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. ### What happens when a prospect says not now? "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days. HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator: a newly connected paid account starts at 20 a day and doubles each week up to its limit), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time. HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. 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