Autonomous vehicles is a rapidly expanding field and the need for robust and efficient path planners is high. We approach the global path- planning problem for an autonomous load carrier for quarry environments, developed at Volvo Construction Equipment, using two methods: a two- step path planning and path smoothing approach, and a method based on an optimal control formulation of the path planning problem. The two-step method is based on smoothing an initial path found by A*, an efficient grid search algorithm, by fitting a curve consisting of as few clothoid segments as possible to the A* path. The smoothing is done by rewriting the non-linear optimization problem to a convex form by a linearization of the deviation constraints around th...