ABSTRACT
The problem how to describe an operation of the shovel-trucks system in a precise way is still vital for the mining practice. Effords are being made to improve mathematical models to obtain more accurate description of the system. The paper presents a short review of some essential models such as Palm's, Takac's, Erlang's and Barbaro and Rosenshine - all constructed in a queue theory field with the reference to the mining practice. A suggestion of a new, different approach to the one of the latest models, this considered by Barbaro and Rosenshine, is disscused and merits and demerits of such an approach are also given. The problem of availability of equipment involved in analysis of the system is outlined as well.
