Strict Rules UPS Drivers Really Have To Follow

You'd think that being a UPS driver might be a pretty chill gig, right? Guess again. There are tons of strict rules all UPS truck drivers have to follow. Most of these rules are based on safety and the company's bottom line: earn more money.

UPS drivers are not supposed to take left turns, if they can help it, and their routes are actually strictly planned to minimize the necessity of such turns as much as possible.

The reasoning behind this seemingly bizarre rule, as explained by the Independent, is efficiency. When you take a left turn, you have to move through oncoming traffic, which means that even though a left turn might be a shorter distance, it will lead to a longer drive.

UPS boasts that avoiding such turns reduces delays from waiting for traffic to clear, leads to 10 million fewer gallons of fuel being used a year, lowers carbon dioxide emissions, delivers 350,000 more packages, and perhaps most importantly, reduces the number of traffic accidents.

Frankly, the figures here are surprisingly convincing — and were tested by Mythbusters, if you're curious — to the point where one could make a decent argument that maybe everybody should avoid these turns, just like UPS drivers do.

Now, to be clear, sometimes a UPS driver has to take a left turn, and there's no getting around it. This doesn't happen too often, though, as UPS claims only about 10 percent of the turns on their maps are left-handed ones.

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