Can eliminating left-hand turns in your delivery routes save you serious money? UPS reports that eliminating the time-consuming left-hand turn for its 95,000 delivery vehicles has reduced fuel consumption by roughly 3 million gallons per year–not to mention the saving in driver time waiting for traffic to clear.
UPS is using a package flow optimization technology which, among other efficiency enhancing processes such as packing and sorting shipments and mapping out driver routes, dramatically reduces the number of left-hand turns drivers need to make across traffic.
No word on whether the software is yet available to other fleet operators, but I am sure that UPS would be willing to speak to other fleets about licensing the software, which they have done in the past with other technologies they have developed or purchased.
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