WEBVTT 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:05.600 This is how UPS drivers learn how to walk on Ice. 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:09.000 I might look hilarious to use sliding across this contraption. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.500 It's like I haven't quite learned to walk. 00:00:12.700 --> 00:00:14.600 This is called the slip and fall machine, 00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:17.900 you're strapped into a sturdy harness and given shoe covers 00:00:17.900 --> 00:00:18.900 that mimics slippery conditions. 00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:30.700 Okay, okay walking correctly on this fake ice goes against 00:00:30.700 --> 00:00:36.200 intuition UPS spends $200 a year on safety training like this. 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:40.000 So I spent the day at one of the UPS integrad driving schools 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.700 learning how more than 125,000 UPS drivers stay safe and cut 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:48.900 time from every delivery altogether UPS drivers travel almost 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:53.800 3.5 billion miles a year that's like driving from New York City 00:00:53.800 --> 00:00:56.200 to La 1.5 million times. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.800 Even if you didn't see one of them the drivers are trained 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:10.000 to make sure they saw you on the horn. 00:01:11.300 --> 00:01:15.700 I heard it all day all the time. 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:19.000 My home is look so I can we see something that's in our purview 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:20.600 are driving scene. 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.500 We stopped at horn and a lot of people think that it's negative 00:01:24.500 --> 00:01:26.600 and we're but to to a little hey, 00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:28.300 you know, like look at me. 00:01:28.300 --> 00:01:32.200 I'm over here that horn saves a lot of lives but one of the 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.600 most important techniques nearly all the instructors 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:39.900 said with keeping a safe distance from the cars around you an 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:40.500 hour or less. 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:43.200 I need to have at least four to six seconds of following 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:46.200 distance. If I'm over 30 miles an hour. 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:48.500 I need six to eight seconds. 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:51.900 It took me out on the road like the students do showing me the 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:55.000 style these drivers use an intense driver drill. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.300 They all go through the driver must call out 45 eye movement 00:01:59.300 --> 00:02:01.000 in just a two-minute span. 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.700 Speed limit have an intersection coming up here on the right 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:07.300 with the clear. 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:10.100 The driveway is on the left or clear. 00:02:10.100 --> 00:02:14.600 My left ear is Hazzard car over 5 days delivery drivers. 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:18.400 Learn Defensive Driving techniques in classrooms on practice 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:23.500 trucks in virtual reality setup on a mini road course and out 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:24.700 in real driving situation. 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:30.500 The course is designed not just to provide the safest way to drive 00:02:30.500 --> 00:02:33.700 the brown box trucks but to make delivering every package 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:38.500 as efficient as possible UPS delivers over 21 million packages 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:42.700 a day instructors teach drivers to do everything in a fluid 00:02:42.700 --> 00:02:46.800 motion. Just entering the truck and turning it on is a choreographed 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:53.700 dance going to contact Lowe's in the Cradle hit the button. 00:03:02.100 --> 00:03:06.800 That's my stock out routine training is about safety instructors. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.800 Also try to shave seconds off every motion drivers average 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.400 between 100 and 150 stops today. 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:15.100 This area is empty. 00:03:15.100 --> 00:03:18.200 All they have to do is just walk back in here and then just 00:03:18.200 --> 00:03:22.200 slide the packages up so that this area is always filled up with 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:30.000 package. So if you have a 150 stops and you taken two extra 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.600 steps at every stop, you're just adding miles to do your day 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:37.900 just on your body you have taken all that abuse has all-day 00:03:37.900 --> 00:03:42.300 the methods. Here protect both the drivers and the company 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:47.400 behind the facility is Tiny Town USA amaka used to teach drivers 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.400 what to do when facing challenges including four-legged 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.800 ones since they could be a dog over here. I'm 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.300 going to put my body against the door in case it's a big 00:03:55.300 --> 00:03:59.000 dog and then I'm going to put the package by the dog he is 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:01.500 so when I open if it's a little Chihuahua sound doesn't come 00:04:01.500 --> 00:04:02.600 running. Down the street. 00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:06.900 I'm going to leave the package inside or close the door and stop 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:10.700 complete. My stop UPS is expanding me safe driving schools 00:04:10.700 --> 00:04:13.000 recently opening its 12 location in Ohio, 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.600 and it may be paying off their drivers received less than 2,000 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.900 tickets for unsafe driving over the past two years and none 00:04:20.900 --> 00:04:22.600 were considered acute or critical. 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.800 That's a respectable number for the 129000 drivers using the 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:34.500 same road. We use everyday everyday and help them get to the 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:34.900 most important.