. The present invention may also be embodied in a computer implemented method for improving the mileage quality of a pair of loads selected from a plurality of loads, wherein the plurality of loads comprises a plurality of units to be delivered from a terminal to a plurality of destinations within a geographic region on a plurality of delivery vehicles. The embodiment comprises creating a list of candidate load pairs from the plurality of loads; selecting a candidate load pair from the list of candidate load pairs, the selected candidate load pair comprising a first candidate load and a second candidate