Nothing new in the concept of running one side of the street, then running the other. Drivers have been doing this since UPS began.
What is new is that IE came up with this idea. And now they are telling the driver to run the loops like they want you to, without exception.
Problem is that the guys doing the looping, and the IE guys that came up with the plan, have a real limited knowledge of what the average driver does each day.
I can see in some cases, how running one square block, then moving onto the next square block, could save time over running the streets one at a time. But either way, most UPS drivers 20 years ago, delivering in town, made 95 right turns for every 5 left turns. Those in the country still deliver the stops as they come, with as few left turns as possible, but running them in sequential order.
That is the way it always has been.
Its just that IE has to justify their existence, and come up with all sorts of "new" and wonderful ideas..............
Just think, $250,000,000 to create a new delivery order at UPS.
I am in the wrong business.
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