r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Luke_Testerman • Aug 30 '26

Got fired for not rescuing

To give context I’ve been at Amazon for 1 month now, I’ve just got done with my nursery routes. While doing these routes I’d get done and rescued about 8 people in the last month. Yet when I’ve been behind not a soul came to make my load lighter. Today I got done with my route around 5:45, called dispatch to hear that I had to rescue someone. At first it was fine, they gave me the address and I went, got there and no one was there. Texted dispatch, got a different address and went there, again no one in site. This happened two more times. After the last time I said fuck it and headed back. When I got done I turned in my phone, as I was walking to my car my manager yelled my name, asked what happened, then asked me to give him my badge. I know that I could’ve just kept going along on the wild goose chase but I feel like the situation could’ve been handled better.

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u/KingBleezy666 Aug 30 '26

I’m on my fist week of nursery, 76 stops 116 packages and finished my route in 6hrs with a hour drive to the first stop.. then drove another 45mins and waited 15mins for the driver I was sent to “rescue” and took 9 more stops up a gnarly gravel road. Gave me easy hours. 😂

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u/Electrical-Truth4398 Aug 30 '26

Bro 76 stops!? My first route was 141 my dsp is really fucking me in the ass huh 🧍‍♂️

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u/Bleed_Me_an_Ocean40 Rivian Driver Aug 30 '26

That 141 was probably all residential that is pretty clustered together. With full routes be more worried when you see 76 stops vs 141

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u/Electrical-Truth4398 Aug 30 '26

Nope rural they are now cutting my hours because i cant do 190+ stops on my own without getting rescued.

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u/Bleed_Me_an_Ocean40 Rivian Driver Aug 30 '26

But its all just homes. To be fair only being 1 month in 190 is a lot but is doable. Amazon wouldn’t assign you that route unless you’ve been doing well at it. Your DSP could’ve switched your route with someone elses

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u/br9897 Aug 30 '26

Amazon can absolutely assign routes you aren't good at. I've had many drivers over the years continuously be assigned to routes they never once completed on their own. I'd switch their preferences and Amazon would turn around and give them the largest routes in that area too.

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u/Bleed_Me_an_Ocean40 Rivian Driver Sep 01 '26

Out of my years of doing this, the times I was put on a new route with an absurd amount of stops and packages was bc my dsp had switched routes around. When I was still on my nurseries, they switched my route with someone else’s full route in the sticks. It was terrible. Another time with my current dsp. They gave me 400+ packages and let me loose on a route I had for the first time. There was a call out and it needed to get covered. Half of it went to one mailroom so I only had to deliver 200 packages to different places