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Why UPS Is So Efficient: 'Our Trucks Never Turn Left"
- protomyth 16y agoI can see trying this, but the local truck has to turn left given the roads. Looking at the comments to the story, it seems many are reporting a different tale.
- cperciva 16y agoAvoiding left turns is one factor considered by the route-optimization software, but not the only one. And unlike the mythbusters test, the route-optimization software can reorder deliveries; there are many cases where the optimum order to make deliveries while avoiding left turns is completely different from the optimum order to make deliveries if you include left turns.
- gamble 16y agoUPS is 'efficient'... So efficient they learned not to waste time on actual deliveries when they could just claim that the recipient wasn't home without ever having to stop the truck.
- cafard 16y agoThey also double park and park in drive lanes when there are driveways or side streets within a few steps. These efficiencies add to the costs of every other driver on the road. Didn't they laugh at J. Edgar Hoover's distaste for left-hand turns?
- drallison 16y agoThe assertion is clearly not true. If the street is a dead end, the turn around is clearly a pair of left-hand turns in a drive-on-the-right space. Oh, and the "never turn left" rule needs to be modified in the third of the world that drives on the left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic