A variety of types of sensors may be placed in or on an interior or exterior surface of a vehicle. The sensors may capture various kinds of data such as time-of-flight data, weight data, image data, and so forth. The sensor data may be transmitted via one or more network connections to a device configured to process the sensor data to generate load characteristic information. The load characteristic information may be indicative of one or more characteristics of a vehicle load of the vehicle such as a space utilization characteristic.