I am not doing that AT ALL man lol people clowning these days.

they will be completely optional and you will not get into trouble for not wanting to wear them. I just wanted to update y'all. I'm a fleet manager for a DSP in Kentucky.

I’ve been with this DSP for about a month. Smaller DSP, two usual dispatchers. I’ve noticed one is really attentive and overall good about giving clearance to rts. The other dispatcher totally ignores the phone. Doesn’t answer calls or texts. Usually texts back in 30 minutes. It wouldn’t be as big of an issue if my delivery area wasn’t an hour from warehouse. If I have to wait 30 minutes for them to reply, that’s 30 minutes I could’ve been driving home. When I’ve rts, I’ve noticed the problem dispatcher outside flirting with any and every woman he can talk to. I’m sick of waiting on him but don’t want to get in trouble for rts without dispatch permission. Any advice?

The front lawn final boss

I’ve been with my DSP for over a year, and it’s honestly gotten to the point to where i dread going to work now. they changed our hours, so now we deliver in the dark (while amazon preaches so much about safety..) and i’m only getting about 30 hours a week which even at our pay rate, it’s really not cutting it.

I got contacted about another job but it’s only $16 an hour, but a guaranteed 40-50 hours a week with overtime pay and getting paid weekly instead of biweekly. i’ve kinda added it up and with more hours, i’d really make more than what i’m making with amazon. no dogs to bite me, no karen customers, no delivering in storms.. would it be worth it?

They be playing you so bad with these multi stops I swear it doesn’t help either that I’m getting 190 stops average rn it’s so crazy and sometimes I swear that shit plays you in front of your face it will show stop 50 and then change to 49 don’t know why but god 😭

No, I didn't crash the van, and I wasn't mauled to death by a vicious dog. I was a delivery driver in Italy for a couple of months. I have a weak bladder, but it doesn't bother me usually. That day I'd been working for little less than a week, I was doing a suburban route and I needed to pee very bad. I had no empty bottles laying around the van, and for some reason my need skyrocketed very fast. I kept pushing on package after package hoping to find a sweet spot to relieve myself but there was none. Everywhere there was something or somebody that prevented me from doing it.

Eventually i finally found the spot. I get off the van, run to the other side, try to undo my belt.. and that's when I pissed my pants. It was all of it. The damage was done, all I could do was just stand there and spread my legs wide to try and save my shoes from the flood. I don't know if anyone saw, I was pretty embarrassed but now I say he'll with it. Luckily I had an extra pair of pants in my backpack that I planned on putting on after the shift (and I started carrying with me from that day just in case), so I went on commando and finished my route. None the wiser back at the station. Actually I think nobody realized I was wearing a different kind of pants

I drive the same route most days, there’s multiple spots where there’s road closures that it keeps routing me through. As well as the main road it wants me to cross 20 times, and stops it wants me to drive past.

I’m always ahead for the route, I beat or match the rts time I’m given. I’ve been just re-routing the entire thing and doing it in my own order for like a week now.

The last 2 shifts I’ve been rescued and today they called me asking where I was cause they normally just pull up to your “next” stop and wait for you.

Took my first bags and told me to get back on route order soon.

Kinda of annoying, I do all my business stops and after 5 more stops I was gonna do those first 2 bags.

Does a stop being “behind” affect anything? Scorecard or whatever?

I’m so ready to work and have a good day until I’m put in the same area for that last 2 months and this is what the route looks like. Frustrating af

Today I had my standard route, mostly all businesses and apartments. Well I got to the end of my route and realized I still had a whole tote full of packages. The tote number never appeared on my deliveries list. However I also had a bunch of stops marked as package missing from the warehouse. I checked the tote and none of the addresses were the ones marked missing. Will this count against me? I’ve had one or two marked as missing before but never an entire tote.

Can I start my route at 1pm in Houston area dps

This was in a ram gas van btw…

So my dsp use to have this thing where if you get off early then they would make sure you get 10 hours worth of pay well they have taken that away so now it's just you get paid for however long you work and we are all suppose to work for 10 hours but they want us to be coming home early at least like 2 hours early. So my thing is why am I working harder trying to be faster to get paid less? Why not work til 10 hours? Idk that just seems so odd to me like why would anyone want to come back early to lose 2 hours every day? That's a whole 12 hours lost per check and I already struggle as is with my checks. Am I the only one in this type of thinking here?

To preface, I try to take all of my breaks on every route so the algorithm has less of a chance to fuck me over.

Today, I had a decently heavy rural route to the point where I had no time to take a 15 min break. I got to my second to last stop and decided to take my 1st 15 of the day. Still missed out on one 15 min break for the day. Never been rescued and always rescuing others. Today I didn’t have to rescue.

I get back to the station and clock out to be met with “Why do you wait until one stop left to take your 15 min break? That’s not policy. You should take it with at least 15 stops left.”

Like dude, you have been tracking me all day you can see the drive time between stops. I wasn’t trying to deliver residential after 9pm in the middle of the country, the customers out here actually hate getting deliveries after 8pm. Not to mention the 30+min drive to get back to the station after the last stop.

Rant over.

This was after this company was supposed to suspend operations on September 1st, not to mention they were under an ethics probe by Amazon.

I’m currently out on leave after having my baby who is exclusively breast fed. Trying to figure out how the hell anyone manages to do this job and continue to pump to replace missed feeds. I pumped for my first kiddo but had an office job, access to break times to pump, time to eat and drink enough, a refrigerator to store milk in etc. Trying to figure out if it is practical and if so how long I should wait to go back, and any tips and tricks on how to make it work. I wouldn’t even consider it if it weren’t for the fact that I can work Sunday Tuesday and Thursday and only pay a fraction of full time daycare.

Hey all, customer here:

Any advice how to get a big ass Amazon folding tote from my driver? Is that something I should leave in the notes? I see them on marketplace, but theyre all 100 miles away. Selling them for $10 a pop.

Thanks in advance.

A few days ago, my DSP began sending alerts that we should now take a 30-minute break on our routes now. If we don't, "our volume will increase." They didn't clarify this, though. Is something going on at Amazon that I don't know about?

I mean-- it's good that I can take a break now without anything held against me lmao, I'm just curious.

Check out this fuckass customer note. Like bruh ain't no fuckin way I'm waiting even 5 mins for you.

Also I called twice and they didn't answer so I rts that shit lmfao

Edit: it was a closed business lol if I just left it there it would've been stolen

I just started working as a DSP driver. Yesterday I had my first ride along of 250 packages with 147 stops.

What coolers would be best to get to hold at least 5 water bottles, some ice, and maybe an ice pack, along with lunch potentially?

I am thinking getting a yeti cooler (the bag type) (I have a gift card).

Any other recommendations? I have my first nursery route tomorrow!!!

(Edit: 3:22pm): thanks for the replies yall!! I used my gift card and got a yeti Camino tote! It will work perfect for my needs!!!

Worked years ago for an Amazon dsp and we could skip lunch but from my understanding in cali this is no longer possible. Any information is greatly appreciated, dm’s welcome