This is why you never see a UPS truck in a NASCAR race.
FedEx had, as part of their safe driving guidelines, a recommendation to avoid left turns whenever possible. (In the interest of disclosure, I worked for them many years ago - early 80s to early 90s. That’s how I know this.)
It’s true that many accidents occur as a result of someone making a left turn. It’s a metaphor for politics, too!
Now, if only our country could learn the same thing.
I’m left handed and I turned out all right.
"Derek, that's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm sure there are lots of people out there who can't...turn....I mean there have gotta be some people out there, just like you, who can't...turn...turn...left."
I live on a dead end street and have a whole colony of UPS drivers living down here. I think they’ve gone feral and ate a FedEx driver who wandered in among them.
This is not new news.... Almost all delivery type companies like beer, soft drink, etc use programs like “road net” to sequence deliveries in the most efficient way possible.....
I used one for years and yes you do get some very weird looking routes....also depends on the information programmed into it....
As with any computer program.... Garbage in garbage out...
I avoid left turns whenever convenient. I implemented the same rule informally, mostly to avoid potentially dangerous situations. I nearly always avoid dangerous intersections when it makes sense.
I knew a lady UPS driver that really knew how to do “a series of right-hand loops”,
Based on my local experience, their job adverts must read:
“NOW HIRING: World’s Most Aggressive and Obnoxious Drivers. Must be willing to cut off anybody at any time. Blemished driving record? No problem.”
Avoiding left turns has been official FedEx policy since 1978.
They will turn left, but it is very rare.
Well not only for safety but also as a symbolic gesture you don’t want to give liberals any ideas that because you turn left you support their murderous, Marxist, Fascist, commie, Islamo terror supporting, socialist, criminal supporting butts, sodomy loving butts. So going right is always right.
I drive a small SUV and I avoid left turns unless there is a traffic light. Rights are easier, by far.
What’s their policy on u-turns?
Now we can't have that. That's a $2 million "loss" for the Federal Government. That is $2 MILLION that UPS stole from the poor and helpless chil'run who will wake up tomorrow morning and face another day without a warm cafeteria breakfast... Well, I guess we'll just have to make right hand turns illegal and jack up delivery fee taxes. THAT will show'em!
They are precise about their routes. I gotta give ‘em that. I missed a very important signature-required delivery once. I called UPS to ask if I could go to the driver’s hub at the end of his shift to get the package. They radioed the driver and told me to meet him at the corner of such-and-such streets at 6:03. They cautioned me not to be 30 seconds late because he’d leave. I was early. He rolled up on the DOT at 6:03:01.
Except in the countries with left-hand traffic, where I assume the routes favor left-hand turns.