Strategy 1: Increase shovel utilization through optimal truck matching. This scenario involved increasing the number of trucks in the system in order to identify the optimal truck-shovel match. In an alternate scenario, additional 100-ton trucks were added to the fleet since the mine has two such trucks readily available. The mine is more likely to add these 100-ton trucks than purchase new 150-ton trucks. It is estimated that the shovel is able to load 100-ton trucks in five passes.