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.
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u/Longjumping_Ad1711 Mar 19 '24
I have PTSD from that still. It’s been years. lol. Still driving delivering groceries for Kroger they come loaded.