> For each mile saved, per driver, per year, UPS saves $30 million.
Err, there's no way a single mile per year costs them $30 million. Looks like the $30m figure is the total savings, unless they're using gold, single-use robots that burn gold to push the gold trucks.
They did say per driver. It's still a high number of course, but I don't see how you can read that differently? UPS has around 400,000 employees, so if 200,000 of those are drivers that number becomes $150 per mile saved. Still way too high, but not single use golden robots high.
I think the goal has to be to read what it doesn't say.
The most sensible interpretation I can come up with is saving 1 route mile for each driver for a year (that is, chopping 365 miles off the work of one driver). That puts the per mile savings right around $0.40.
Err, there's no way a single mile per year costs them $30 million. Looks like the $30m figure is the total savings, unless they're using gold, single-use robots that burn gold to push the gold trucks.