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Why UPS drivers don't make left turns
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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1417633" data-attributes="member: 45230"><p>UPS announced earlier this fall that in order to meet growing holiday demand the company would operate on all cylinders the Friday after Thanksgiving. In the past, only UPS air operations ran that day; this year, the company’s trucks will be on the road as well.</p><p></p><p>One thing you won’t see those trucks doing while they’re out delivering packages? Make left turns.</p><p></p><p>How does UPS know that right turns are better? The company built a proprietary GPS system called Orion.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, when ORION calculates the most efficient route, it almost never routes a left turn.</p><p></p><p>When Yahoo Finance asked UPS’s Chief Commercial Officer, Alan Gershenhorn, about it he gave two additional reasons for ORION. The first is safety, the second is stoplights</p><p></p><p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-ups-drivers-don-t-make-left-turns-172032872.html" target="_blank">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-ups-drivers-don-t-make-left-turns-172032872.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1417633, member: 45230"] UPS announced earlier this fall that in order to meet growing holiday demand the company would operate on all cylinders the Friday after Thanksgiving. In the past, only UPS air operations ran that day; this year, the company’s trucks will be on the road as well. One thing you won’t see those trucks doing while they’re out delivering packages? Make left turns. How does UPS know that right turns are better? The company built a proprietary GPS system called Orion. The thing is, when ORION calculates the most efficient route, it almost never routes a left turn. When Yahoo Finance asked UPS’s Chief Commercial Officer, Alan Gershenhorn, about it he gave two additional reasons for ORION. The first is safety, the second is stoplights [url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-ups-drivers-don-t-make-left-turns-172032872.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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