United Parcel Service is a master at automation and efficiency. They have to be with all the packages they have to deliver and all the vehicles they have to operate. Small inefficiencies throughout their world wides system could sink them quickly.
Especially now that gas prices are so high… it’s nice to be able to deduct your mileage in your work at home business, but how do you get the most miles for your money.
You may not be able to implement UPS’ technology per se, but you can do something UPS does starting now to increase the efficiency of your travels… make as many right turns as possible.
UPS managers used to get out and drive the routes, plotting on maps how they could be efficiently driven turning mostly right. Now they have a combination of not just experience, but computers, codes and programming that allows them to plot out right-turn routes in minutes.
UPS trucks drove 2.5 billion miles last year, but the company says its package flow technology combined with right-turn routes saved 28,541,472 million miles, and three million gallons of fuel.
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Here’s the story at ABC news
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