Brown Goes Green By Reducing Left Turns

With almost 100,000 delivery trucks on the road each day, UPS has responded to high gas prices by using it's routing expertise to reduce overall gasoline usage by their brown delivery trucks. By creating routes that minimize mileage and drastically reduce left-hand turns, UPS has cut annual gasoline consumption by the equivalent of 28.5 million miles.

Trucks idling while waiting to make left hand turns each consume a small amount of gasoline. Multiple that tiny number by 95,000 vehicles and a small savings becomes large. The net effect on the environment is also a positive one. 31,000 tons of CO₂ emmissons have been prevented by the UPS intelligent routing systems.

Hats off to UPS for making their fleet activities more energy efficient.