To UPS, the shortest distance between two points must avoid crossing oncoming traffic. We found this article intriguing. You likely will, too.
Source: The Conversation, January 2017.
It seems incredible that not turning left can lead to such significant savings. The TV series Mythbusters tested this idea and confirmed that, despite many more turns, the policy of only turning right does save fuel. In their one truck experiment they travelled further, but when you scale this up to a global level, UPS really does travel fewer miles in total.
INSIGHTS: Many of us may remember having similar coaching in driver’s education.