This paper presents optimal solutions for the following two problems ; (1) The vehicle routing problem with deadline considering homeward-route transport requirement, (2) The problem of (1) with relaxed constraint that the vehicle cannot visit the depot during the trip. That is, for the second problem, vehicle can visit the depot several times during the trip. The formulation and optimal solution we obtained outperform the existing ones proposed by other researchers in the sense of time and total distance traveled and the results can be applicable to short-haul local transport.