Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Right turns only for UPS drivers

Wow .. somethng i am an expert on, since i was the person who physially INSTALLED the "new route planning software" at the head office.

The software is a simple routeplanning guide that takes into account traffic patterns, volume and flow, as well as pick up and drop offs of packages.

Because of the traffic logic included in the package, what may seem like an "out of the way" route may actually save time (even if it does incur further milage). and in the delivery business time is weghted 1.5 times milage.

The rest is trade secret and i can't really tell you anymore about it.

(note the software is used globally.. and as a funny aside, while i was there, i needed a supplemental disk to be sent to me.. my company sent it FEDEX... how embarrasing..)

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