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A vehicle with m compartments transports q different products of various sizes from a source to n different destinations. The operational problem is how to load the compartments of the vehicle so that the replenishment time is maximized for a given route of destinations. A mixed integer linear programming model is developed for this class of problems. An investigation of the structure of the model...