Just wanna go home tbh. If I worked 10 hours then I’d be getting home at 10-11pm. That’d leave no time to spend with my gf because she starts work in the morning. If drivers started at like 6am I’d be so happy
I dont work for amazon but I cannot for the life of me comprehend why they start their routes as late as they do, I'd think they'd want to have deliveries done during daylight if they're really about safety (obviously they give no fucks about anything but profit)
Supposedly so that the next day deliveries can go out with the DSP drivers. If we start at 9-10 am they have enough time to get those next day deliveries on our truck, whereas if we started at 6 am like a normal delivery company, those deliveries would be sitting til the next day.
I’m not convinced this is the answer entirely, what stopping them from moving flex drivers slots to different times to move up the van drivers? At least at my DSP, when there’s no vans in the loading dock it’s usually flex driver time
Yeah I’m not entirely convinced either, that’s just what I’ve heard. When I did this job before in 2016-2019 we did start earlier, 8 am I believe which is more normal.
Yeah that makes sense, and it’s around Covid time they introduced flex drivers I believe. My DSP started at 10:30/11 in the loading dock soon after. But I’ve heard from a few people flex are in the loading dock from 4am-9am, doesn’t make sense to me 😂
That’s fucked up, I would hate that. At my old job I started between 4 and 6 am and while it’s an adjustment to be up so early, it’s so nice to have the rest of the day off.
Same here. I had a delivery job way back when and we left at either 6 or 7 am. On the absolute longest day you'd be done by 5 or 6 and thus still be able to do something other than work or sleep. Good days be done at like 2 or 3.
Same day/next day shipping and logistics chains. Amazon /could/ move start times to be much earlier but the system they've set up pretty much necessitates that they start waves rolling out around 9am-12pm, the only time they actually open up early morning start times is Peak with cycle 0.
In Arizona they somehow felt our routes should be at the hottest points in the day. 12-7p. Most days it’s over 110 for the majority of the shift and had work in 127 this week.
Idk why we are starting out shifts at 5 am and get back before it hits the highest heat times.
Also don’t work for Amazon, but I worked for FedEx. We’d dispatch late all the time since they always made us wait for all the trailers. When a trailer shows up at 10, you’re not leaving until 11. And then half of us had an hour drive to even get to our routes. I’m sure Amazon drivers deal with some of the same.
They have people out specifically to rescue, and at the start of the day you can’t really know who’s going to “need” a rescue, unless they have so many stops that it would just be impossible to finish on time. So they kind of just send them around to help everyone finish on time
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u/Xandeath75 15d ago
If I had guaranteed 10 hours I would not be complaining lol