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It’s the world’s largest package delivery company with the instantly recognizable trucks.61 Every day, United Parcel Service (UPS) transports more than 20 million packages and documents throughout the United States and to more than 220 countries and territories, including every address in North America and Europe. (Total worldwide delivery volume was 5.1 billion packages and documents in 2017.) Delivering those packages efficiently and on time is what UPS gets paid to do, and that takes a massive effort in helping drivers to make decisions about the best routes to follow.

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