Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left 

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UPS Sniper on a roof 2 blocks away: “Don’t even think about it, bud”

UPS Driver: "I'll fucking do it anyway!"

The truck is then followed by another UPS truck, but this one has police sirens.

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Onto one way streets though!

Still, interesting that they couldn't find stock footage of them turning right if that is what they do almost all the time.

@@TheGodExperiments Knowing Sam's sense of humor, I wouldn't be surprised if he went out of his way to find as much footage of left turns as he could, just for the joke of it. (On a more serious note, I wonder if there's more stock footage of left turns because you have more choices of camera angle and distance from inside the turn that way. Shooting from the left side of the truck also has the benefit of having the driver more visible. I'm overthinking this now...)

There were 2 pieces of stock footage showing UPS trucks turning. One went left, one went right

6 minute long video, talks about why UPS almost never turns left for 1 and half minutes. ;)

Was expecting more of that as well, but it's probably something boring like a route finder programmed to heavily favour right turns. Maybe some tweaking of districts thrown in.

@@staomruel If we think whatever map as a square grid, by doing one left turn first we should be able to get to any points on any route with only right turns regardless of our entry point to the grid, no? That's my guess.

Well, the route they take is still an optimization problem, not turning left is just another thing to account for. Generally speaking, you have two ways of doing this: adding a restriction or minimizing left turns, along with distance. The first way, the program will search for routes without left turns. If it doesn't find any, it will try for routes with one left turn and so on... Depending on other restrictions, this could result in a 100 miles route without left turns being chosen, rather than a 1 mile route with 1 left turn. I'm sure they're wiser than that. The second way, you penalize any left turns found in a route. It could be something like, each left turn is worth 1 mile in the optimization result. I can't tell you exactly how they do it, because I don't know and they probably don't tell anyone. A great "traveling salesman" algorithm costs a lot of money.

@@Artaxo those are the kind of variables one would expect to be thrown in, interesting to think about, boring nonetheless.

Now I'm wondering if UPS has been a driving force in the emergence of roundabouts worldwide....

That gotta hurt

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When?

4:11

Turning left onto a one way street though, which is significantly faster.

lol so true. By "Never turn left", I expect HAI means "not cutting across traffic". That left hander was moving into a one-way street. No traffic to cut across.

Benji 4:08*

Pretty sure that's a one way road

Lol

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I’m pretty sure UPS doesn’t use GPS. I’m a FedEx courier and we don’t use them either.

@@taeminyeo7540 pretty sure they don't, since I have seen multiple of those and never set foot onto one of the American continents.

@@taeminyeo7540 no we have ups vans in the uk, we just don’t call them trucks hahaha

@@taeminyeo7540 Western Europe

India as well

Ok... this was tenth as interesting... I think the title was self explanatory. I never thought about it but once he’s mentioned it, we could guess why they do it and how smart it is (and you even forgot to mention that unlike here in the U.K. in America you can turn right most of the time even when it’s red. Strange that I have to tell this to an American... that’s the MAJOR reason that they do that). P.s Another reason is that they know that they’re driving on the wrong side of the road

Finally someone understands

UPS Driver: its necessary *Interstellar music intensifies

*plays "No Time for Left" music*

We have free left turns here.

@ICAUSEDTHIS YT If I make two lefts aren't I technically making a right?🤓

UPS in UK when turning right: This little maneuver is going to cost us the truck

Your home was after left turn then

The post office loves that one too!

Based on my personal experience you're not wrong. In the area where I live UPS drivers have total discretion whether they want to make left turns or right turns, the order the packages are delivered in is based on what the driver thinks is best rather than some kind of algorithm or company policy.

You serious about red lights?

@@sandro5535 you always can turn right even at red light

@@sandro5535 100% it is legal where i live to turn right at a red light.

@@sandro5535 except Montreal, in that one city for some reason turning right on a red is bad??? LOL

@@user-hn6mk8sc2i At least in Germany it's normally prohibited to turn right on red lights

You are very right. As an employee, I can tell you for certain, the left turn rule is a relic of the past. While UPS tries not to turn left as a whole, it will not go 2 miles extra to prevent turning left. Combined with your comment and left turns are much more frequent than UPS P.R. would have you believe. In the several years I've worked there, I have never once been told to avoid left turns, but I am preached to keep miles travelled down. However that may be.

Ya I feel left nowadays the new software drives you in left handed circles all day.

Christopher Bassett yup! The divers KNOW their routes probably BETTER than the back of their hand. Heck! Some of them even KNOW they will be going to the SAME HOUSE almost everyday 5 days a week. Even the latest and greatest navigation WITH “real time” traffic is worthless when experienced drivers know alternate routes that incorporate drops on the way.

It's like the pirates code it's more like a guide line.

True for almost every delivery driver nowadays!!

Lmaoo

Because being left is easy

You don’t need the “to be”. Just, “because being right is way harder”. You’re welcome

@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 unless ur in construction then u have to be careful with the tools since they're made for right handed people

Oh hello

i see you everywhere lol

Agreed. I hate making "unprotected" left turns because you need a break in traffic from both directions. I will often turn right and then find a place to turn around. For example, I'll turn right, then find a place where I can turn left into a parking lot, therefore I only have to wait for a break in oncoming traffic (one direction instead of two). Or I'll go right, and then find somewhere to go in and come back out to a stoplight, which will give me the break in traffic that I need to be able to make a safer left turn (safer than trying to watch 2 opposite directions of traffic for an opening).

If I need to pull off of the highway and turn left, I'll often go to the next exit and turn right. It makes it less stressful, and there's less traffic in my way. Two wins, and I don't even care which is faster because I enjoyed getting there.

Maybe it’s because they’re on the farthest side of the intersecting road near your house

Perhaps they can’t turn left to get there.

they just *left* your home alone

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@@zill_laiss *Applauds*

We can all relate to that.

_das_phantom_ Whoa, you’re so clever! 😂👍

I feel you

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There are road courses in NASCAR.

@@mirzaahmed6589 i am fully aware, but when only 3 races of a 36 race schedule are on road courses, there is still a predominance of left turns going on.

You know the earth is coming to an end when NASCAR decides to turn to the right

@@mirzaahmed6589 and there have been many drivers in NASCAR who could barely finish them.

Chase Elliott: *Laughs in Road Course Master*

Keep ur eyes on the road.

@@KiomonDuck Thanks for that incredibly insightful suggestion.

@@jonasdatlas4668 thank you for the nice reply👍

I'm sitting in my chair and watching

Luckily I am not allowed to drive because I too young

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It's called entertainment If you really don't believe you have time to watch this kind of videos well, you can not waste time watching them or copy and pasting the title and reading the answer for the same effect

Next: why people never swipe right on you

next: why you should consider disowning your children

@Wacky Venky next: why you should never see children

Next: why planes almost never fly backwards

Next: Why there are more airplanes in the sea, than submarines in air.

Lmao Wouldn't that be inefficient? Or against UPS philosophy NASCAR always turns left

@@vasishtvasudevan4059 the ex NASCAR racers wanted to break the barriers, duh

Lol

The Pro Tester, as Michael Andretti said to his son, Marco, in the Target commercials long ago when the elder was supposedly teaching the younger to drive and Marco asked to turn right for a change, “Why would you want to do that?”

@@brookeking8559 to break the chains man. Its hip to nip with the rules to look cools

He-

Good one

*ups gets special permission to have their car do the race in the opposite direction* /s

NASCAR is garbage

only people fimiliar with nascar get this comment

@Gabriel Rainstein my garbage what

LMAO

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@@cherryble no

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@@_-_--_ Did you complain and get a replacement?

Shut up

Meanwhile UPS to customers: *The customer is always right*

@@_-_--_ Well that's reasuring. No need to dump a parcel understand drivers are under time pressure. I'm convinced that if you have anything fragile to post *don't* put fragile on the package ! lol.!

it's all conservative propaganda

fclp67 yep you got it you cracked the code

bipolar Kermit the third It was more of a fun fact I heard from Vsauce So “ambidextrous” doesn’t mean “good with both hands” it means you have “two right hands” And if you don’t have a dominant hand, it’s called “ambisinister” meaning “two left hands” even if neither is dominant

And if you are adroit you are right handed but those gauche people are left handed. And I was surprised to hear that a tailor may ask if a man dresses right or left so a little extra room will be provided in one of the legs.

Because its just not right

@come on man! uk is wicked. Driving on the right is the only way to drice

@@KamikazeMedias nobody is correct. Everybody's supposed to drive like ants😂😂😂

@@2mdjr532 right side is the only side!!!

@@KamikazeMedias you go your road mate

Umm, who’s gonna tell him many countries drive on the left, and USA doesn’t set the norm, I’m American and I know that.

You really are everywhere.

How has this comment only gotten 10 likes? Usually just some guy without a mustache’s comments get around at least 1k

This isnt really educational

notyourpetmonkey It’s been only an hour

Hello, again

I can relate to that. 😐

Pun intended?

Self burn? Wow, that one's rare

First time here?

@@dankdungeon5104 Nyet.

Uuuuhhhhh... there's a lot of issues in the US but how traffic lights are implemented is definitely not one of them. Idk about you but where I am A LOT of intersections with a traffic light have a dedicated lane to turn left. Also how they do the traffic light thing is rlly on a case by case basis. Some traffic lights have (let's just use the cardinal directions as an example of what it would look like from a top down view, and also I'm going to refer to a "stage" as which cars go each time the traffic light changes) Stage 1. South going straight North and North going straight South Stage 2. South turning West and North turning East Stage 3. West going straight East and East going straight West Stage 4. East turning South and West turning North. And then the ppl turning right can turn whenever. Other traffic lights do stage 1. South going North and West Stage 2. North going South and East Stage 3. East going West and South Stage 4. West going East and North. (Not necessarily in that order) Idk what the issue with that is

Petition to make HAI only show left hand turning Corollas made for driving on the left only with left handed drivers in all future videos with the reference to Corollas.

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Lol same

I am left-handed....and went to a Catholic school lol

Me to I'm lefi handed

That's what the video says, they avoid it when it's a two way road and there's just one block around. When it's just turning on a corner without two way traffic, there's no problem. You even get the example shown twice on the video: an UPS truck turning left on a one way street..

@@Ktulu789 I'm a UPS driver, we turn left. The computer tells us not to, but it's very easy to be faster than the computer.

@@Dyrdeksk8r so, the fact that you don't comply with your work rules don't make this video wrong, JUST CONFIRMS IT. Thanks!

@@Ktulu789 The title of the video is Why UPS Trucks Almost Never Turn Left. That is false, they do turn left. quite a bit. My truck turns left all the time, when I turn it left. The computer system was designed to not turn left, but the trucks are not driven by the computer. You're wrong mate, it's ok though, you don't work for UPS you wouldn't know.

@@Dyrdeksk8r well i know they turn left, but what hes trying to say is that the title of this video is speaking about the computer most likely, not a small percentage of tikes a driver has to turn left.

@@athirkell bruh

@@athirkell wot

That driver got fired right after that

For the drivers it’s right but for us it’s left

What more do you want -- I turned myself into a body pillow and nine-eleven was an inside job?

I kept hearing that as "brick and mortar body pillows". Hunh?

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@@CinemaDemocratica Um, what?

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He said ‘They will turn left IF necessary’

Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

Its a one way street

I uh... call me retarded, but I don't get the story

Underwater Parcel Service?

4:08

doggo second plot twist: it was pre mirrored before they mirrored it.

Or it could be in the UK

Benjamin Handell the buildings, streets, traffic lights, and cars do not look like those found in the uk. Also ups is not very common in the uk.

EpicVideos okay, good for you. I clearly did not pay as much attention to the buildings, streets, traffic lights and cars as you did.

With a big red cross as if to say: Don't do this!

He might have flipped the video

The video is flipped since(in America) you drive on the right side of the road and they were on the left

Yeah, it's funny... but that's actually a one-way street, meaning the driver doesn't have to cut across traffic, so that particular left-turn is basically same as a right-turn.

@@-Name-here- It's called a 1 way road, not too uncommon in big cities. He was on the left because every lane on the road is going the same direction and he needed to turn left. He even turns onto a 1 way road as well. Pause the video and look at the signs, if the video was flipped the signs like the "TRUCK ROUTE" ones would be flipped as well.

It's football.

Skeppi2 BMGO it’s whatever he wants to call it

Lbomk Either be American or be normal.

TheGamingAlong Why do people care what it’s called, it’s a pointless argument that accomplishes nothing

@@meowdudefr No, it's not. Football isn't a sport, it's a collective name for a large number of kick and run sports that include American, Australian, Canadian, and Gaelic rules football, both codes of rugby, and other historic sports like cuju in China. Association football (soccer for short) is just one football code. Calling it just football is about as accurate as calling a spoon "utensil", when that term also includes knives, forks, etc.

I diagnose you with heresy and witchcraft

Kaden Bautista I mean to be fair I haven’t been any good since my birth so he’s still not wrong

scarlett johansson is left handed, does that count?

Amen, bro.

Same

I disagree. I have been thinking the same thing for a long time: how not to left: physically and political. If you are a driver, as most people are, you really hate to turn left. Not only inconvenient, wait longer at the current stop, but you are also likely getting red light at the next stop. And worst of all, you will likely make almost all left turns before you get back home. So, next time before you leave home, draw a path, make sure you always turn right. Remember this, you will have a happy life, I am not kidding. Now, politically, I was a leftist when I was a younger. But the older I get and the more intelligent I get, the more I think the left are evil. When leftist ideas gets in your head, you are done. Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, those are cultural icons, now look at them, they are political lunatics, so sad.

@@seanleith5312 Was any of that necessary????

This would've been the case if UPS existed in India

yea, parallel universe like UK

@@kruttichhwas UPS exists in every country, including North Korea.

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But does she weigh as much as a duck?

She turned me into a newt

And therefore... a witch!

@@badandy102 but you dont look like a newt

@@thaeldir8923 I got better

HAI: explains how turning left is more dangerous,use more fuel,takes more time etc. Me, living in a leftside drive country: visible confusion

Did you mean witch?

@@thisdanguy ikr

Libby Abbott a witch? BURN HEERRRRR!!!

Shouldn't have been a lefty then

Well, it's easier to have a computer snitch on employees than actual human-beings. Luckily they don't have to deal with drive-cam

And ORION has you make left turns almost exclusively.

No, I live in Britain and that’s not how it works.

@@TheLiamster I would think right turns in Britain would be the more traffic-intensive turns to make. If UPS strategically avoids left turns in drivers' routes in the US, I would think the counterpart would be to avoid right turns in Britain.

So, yesterday?

@@robertjarman3703 Today since Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 came out today.

@Half as Interesting

Also try to convince them to make a video about why In Africa every minute is 60 secs ....while you're at it.

@@thecornishsymmetry138 Africa does not have leap seconds? That might actually be an interesting topic if it were true.

And it's gonna be the only one

Who needs a truck when you can just drop the packages in via plane? The militaries do it all the time.

well...otherwise he can just do 270 degree right turn donut at the intersection :)

It is BEYOND stupid. I have literally seen the truck with my package leave my complex and go MILES away, only to come back at the end of the day, just to avoid making a left turn. Literal miles wasted. The algorithm will put all necessary left turns at the very bottom of the delivery list, as well. So if a left turn is required to get to your location, you will never receive a package before late afternoon.

He do it in reverse , in that case it’s a right

@@WardenWolf They're not "miles wasted" if the driver had to go over there anyway.

*God*damn, this is a good pun.

@@komi-san1505 You're supposed to put a space between the star and the next word

*God* Damn, this is a good pun.

Thank you God and Rick Astley, very cool.

@@pirayv3397 Like this? * word *

Since the information about UPS not turning left is false, I am going to say it was the pillows

Yeh, even in the middle of winter - those crazy mofos are flying about with no door in shorts!

Probably to save even more time. Opening and closing the door takes a couple of seconds, and that time accumulates until you have minutes wasted. As the video states, every minute counts.

The trucks don’t have ac