Some Tidbits From Amazon Drivers

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Passing along some pieces from an article in Readers Digest. The computer generated routes are often wrong forcing the drivers to search manually for the address. Amazon uses apps to monitor the employees driving including slamming on brakes even though it is necessary at times. Now they are installing cameras to watch the drivers when they yawn or look at their phones. In a ten hour shift they are expected to cart as many as 400 packages to 250 stops. More than 90 % of the drivers finish before their time is up. The drivers need people to illuminate their addresses of included directions to their homes if they are hard to find. In 2016 -2019 Amazon withheld tips from drivers that use their own vehicles and was fined $621.7 million for doing it. The FTC said Amazon stole nearly one third of the drivers tips to pad their own booty. Many drivers join FedEx to make more part time than full time at Amazon. Most drivers make $15/ hour. I left out the drivers are not permitted to drive in reverse.
 

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I have the Amazon UPS tracking app on my computer. I've seen a package I ordered pass my house 4 times going to the industrial park & back out to trailer truck repair out by the interstate.

When he does stop & I'm sitting in the garage I ask how come he passed my house 4 times in one day? He said I have to deliver packages the way they put them in the truck in the mornings along with the way my handheld computer tells me which package to deliver next.

I said looks like a lot of wasted fuel. He said yes but I have to follow orders.
 

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