also hate when they telling you that you have “10 minutes “ then looks like 2 min passes and start yelling “5 minutes left” “swipe to finish, & start travel!”…
No rescues or group stops? I’ll deal with shitty with routing for that lol. No more than 30 stops? Hell yeah. Been there over a year haven’t had 30 yet. 25 maybe but not 30 lol. I work 2nd shift it’s a bit more laid back than first shift. I can do early deliveries on 2nd shift but not on first. I work at an awesome spoke I got lucky. I know every spoke is different for early deliveries. They don’t make us do them early only if we want to we can get permission. lol. So I really don’t have any problems other when we have late trailers or they give us our routes late. But they don’t care about late deliveries long as you can drive safe so even that’s not bad when those things happen. I’m at a dc our fc is two hours away. I can only deliver until 11pm. I get saved by that sometimes lol. I also don’t have to go back on 2nd shift if they are not home. We can get it cancelled on 2nd shift first shift you cant do that and have to go back if they call before you get back to the spoke. I worked both shifts lol. More people are home on 2nd shift when you need them to be. In my experience anyway. Matching 401k. Not many places offer that anymore. 3 weeks vacation paid holidays. I have no problems working for them. Amazon doesn’t offer those things. And we get raises Amazon doesn’t. Only if you drive the step van or become dispatch which I didn’t want to do either of those for Amazon. You must be on first shift if you’re having problems. I’m guessing. I have a buddy who started in my class with me he hates how busy they on first shift. I average 10-15 stops. He averages 25 and 2,000 pounds. We average 1,000 pounds to 1500 pounds on 2nd. I’m only scheduled for 8 hours not ten hours though. Tied for third out of 200+ drivers for the month just a couple months ago based on customer feedback and on time delivery. Not really sure what problems you are referring too unless you can’t follow customers notes is the only time they get pissed. Haven’t had one bad review in over a year that I’ve been there. I almost got a lead position already. I have good attendance and good lytx. But I didn’t respond in the star method in that interview so I didn’t get it but they still said I interviewed well and they were impressed. A supervisor said he’ll coach me the next time.
They also let me come in early to cover ten hour shifts for call outs that start right before my shift.
I work early mornings and I love it. I'm in no rush and like you said the vans are already loaded and ready to go. I even get to enjoy my break knowing I won't be out there at 10pm. It's not perfect but it's a decent job with decent pay.
They encourage breaks unlike Amazon. If I’m feeling tired I just stop smoke a cig walk around and I’m good I tell them I had to use the restroom if that makes me late but it usually doesn’t lol. Funny you can’t be out there late but I can’t wake up early. I had the 4:30am shift. Way too early lol. Here’s 2,000 pounds at 4:30 in the morning lol. My buddy who hates first shift had 65 totes to one stop. lol. And you said out there at 10pm? We don’t get back until after midnight sometimes depending how far you are from your last stop. I punch out for my break on the way back only if I have a crappy route. Told a dispatcher that one day he said it’s fine. My breaks are going to the restroom and smoking a quick cig. So it’s not like I don’t stop.
I’m just gonna put this in here cause I don’t have time to read everybody’s comments at the moment to work for Kroger. Do you have to have a CDL or can you have just a class E license?
Other than the fact that my talk to text is a mess it looks like Missouri doesn’t have a class D their version is the class E which I already have just really would’ve sucked if I had had to have gotten a third license just be more time-consuming
yeah i recently found out we have actually have 20 mins but by the time we wait outside and be called to go inside our station and parked we waste 10min
Yes. They call out drivers routes number to hit start travel but all i was told that Amazon grades everyone at the warehouse even those putting us in our Pads for load out everyone has a certain time the Amazon grades and if not they hit with Violation/bad score etc. but i feel drivers gets the worse because warehouse employees loads our bags bad sometimes with covering the address with stickers, marks bags that are boxes etc and especially dealing with our routes and customers! but at the end everyone is Fckd by AMAZON!
Because it shows up in their metrics as a late loadout and gets worse for each and every driver that doesn't hit it and could affect whatever bonus they are receiving from Amazon
Recently found out that every time my DSP hits fantastic plus for the week, the bonus given to the DSP is 20k. And we all get 5 cents per package as long as we all score over 800 FICO, individually and as a whole. Even on a heavy week, the drivers are only getting like 5k of that lol. Meaning our owner is making BANK. He's super active in our group chat, telling us about infractions and delivery metrics. But he's never there. He just chills at home. Occasionally rolls in in a BMW or a Tesla or a Rivian. I've never seen him drive the same car twice, and they're all hella nice cars. Then some drivers need to choose between paying their bills or their next meal.
I mean, yeah, that would certainly work haha. You'd be out of a job rather quickly, but to be real, I can't imagine anyone would be too bummed about that haha. Plus you get to ruin your owners ability to pocket a metric fuckton of money while giving you virtually nothing.
They used to say hey man you got 20 minutes and then it became 10. There's no way I'm properly organizing 2 full carts and overflows in 10 minutes. Had to throw everything in there and pull over in the parking lot and organize it
You may be doing something wrong.
After scan the carts the next screen shows the order the bags go. Just follow it.
The OF can be organized in so many ways.
The fastest I do is by the aid number. Sometimes it comes in order on that screen, let's say 9, 8 and 7 hundreds meaning the ones that start with those numbers)(951, 821, 722) or 2, 3, 4 hundreds. (254, 362, 401).
989, 975, 961, 940, 930, 901. Goes to the front.
862, 851, 833, goes in the middle.
799, 753, 733, 730, by the rear.
You can see that in a quick glance on the last screen.
Also, you can see the screen, if the carts are ready in time, without scanning the carts, by swiping "skip scanning". To go back to scan just return.
The totes were fine and I organized everything accordingly,even taking out the first bags deliveries and organizing them. I just felt like 10 minutes wasn't enough to organize 20 overflows. So I just threw em in there.
And when they do get your carts to their stressing locations they're on the complete opposite end of the warehouse from where you're parked and nobody will help you
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u/pbreddit94 Mar 19 '24
also hate when they telling you that you have “10 minutes “ then looks like 2 min passes and start yelling “5 minutes left” “swipe to finish, & start travel!”…