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<blockquote data-quote="GoBrown???" data-source="post: 324519" data-attributes="member: 13854"><p><strong>From Parade magazine dated 4/6/08</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>A New Way To Save on Gas</strong></p><p><strong></strong>The delivery giant UPS thinks that making right turns instead of turning left at intersections can help the environment. Tom Dowdy, a UPS engineer, says the company redesigned its routes so that drivers would make a minimum of left-hand turns. As a result, the company shaved 30 million miles off its deliveries in 2007 and thus saved the cost of 3 million gallons of gas. It also reduced UPS truck emissions by 32,000 metric tons (equivalent to the emissions of 5300 passenger cars). </p><p></p><p>What makes right turns so much more energy-efficient? Cars and trucks are not idling in traffic—burning fuel and releasing emissions—when they turn right as opposed to left. (Turning right also is often safer, because drivers don’t have to face oncoming traffic to make a turn.) “People can’t control sky-high gas prices,” says Dowdy, “but they can make small changes in their driving habits that benefit them financially and environmentally over time.” </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>They must be kidding...my center here wastes so much gas with stupid split routes or adding splits to routes that aren't even close to each other. One day I had a split of 8 stops that were 45 minutes away from my last stop. And I had alot of left turns to make</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoBrown???, post: 324519, member: 13854"] [B]From Parade magazine dated 4/6/08[/B] [B]A New Way To Save on Gas [/B]The delivery giant UPS thinks that making right turns instead of turning left at intersections can help the environment. Tom Dowdy, a UPS engineer, says the company redesigned its routes so that drivers would make a minimum of left-hand turns. As a result, the company shaved 30 million miles off its deliveries in 2007 and thus saved the cost of 3 million gallons of gas. It also reduced UPS truck emissions by 32,000 metric tons (equivalent to the emissions of 5300 passenger cars). What makes right turns so much more energy-efficient? Cars and trucks are not idling in traffic—burning fuel and releasing emissions—when they turn right as opposed to left. (Turning right also is often safer, because drivers don’t have to face oncoming traffic to make a turn.) “People can’t control sky-high gas prices,” says Dowdy, “but they can make small changes in their driving habits that benefit them financially and environmentally over time.” They must be kidding...my center here wastes so much gas with stupid split routes or adding splits to routes that aren't even close to each other. One day I had a split of 8 stops that were 45 minutes away from my last stop. And I had alot of left turns to make [/QUOTE]
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