DUDE, you and FridayAdventureClub are the reasons I get into DSP driving. I watch all your vides!! Between the two of you, I've learned so much more. Thanks so much for the comment. I'm going to post another soon to show my rural deliveries.
Indeed, I have an hour and half drive to the first stop, and same when I RTS, so there's 3 hours in just going and coming. Additionally, the stops are pretty far apart, sometime's I'll drive 5-10 minutes between stops. So it takes a while to do even though I didn't have as many stops as a normal city route would have. Thanks for watching, I'm going to be posting a longer rural video in a day or two showing all the turkeys, horses, long driveways etc.
@@anthonymercado8126 what do those look like in terms of how many stops, locations, packages? Because I feel like I never had a route that was less than 8 hours lol
Well my first stop is about an hour and half from the station. The average day had about 80-110 stops, so not too many. It took about 6 hours to finish, then another hour and half drive back. It's an easy route physically, it just takes time cuz it's so far out and the stops are not close together, I have now posted a video on rural routes, country roads recently. However, we have since had a DSP area change since making this video, and we are now back in the suburbs and I've been in the EDV a lot recently. Thank you for watching!!
@@Mestizo90 I work out of WNY-1 Conklin, NY and the DSP I work for are amazing and are on top of everything, they are there at the terminal every day and are very Approachable with making a request, as for the other Dsp's I'm honestly not sure how good they are.
I hope more DSPs can assign the same drivers to the same areas daily, and hopefully with the same vans...so they'll know the area knowledge on when to ignore the robot navigation and do what you explained... less stress that way and better overall service for the customers. Plus you'll know by memory which houses has good or bad dogs. bouncing back and forth like a ping pong ball from one area to the next daily for swing drivers stinks.
Yeah it would be nice, but that's not how Amazon does it, so all we can do is make the best of what we have. I think by being organized, studying your route on the rabbit before you leave the station and having a backup map tool can really help with some common issues. Of course, that won't help with apartments and businesses lol. Thanks for watching!!
In England we are not allowed to just leave the parcel at the doorstep because anyone could just steal it, we have to knock and wait for then to answer and if not in place in the customers safe location if given one and put inside a weather proof bag. Ylu guys have it so easy being able to just leave it at the door.
So often there is no on home, with the size of routes we can in cities, if we have to knock on every door and wait for a response, we would never get out packages delivered. We often look for a place we can leave the package that is not visible from the road and take the picture so that the customer knows where we left their package since they get the picture of the package delivery.
You're welcome, although I've changed it up a bit and found a much faster way. email me or contact me and I can explain my new way and you'll see that it's so much faster.
Amazon got to redefine what a group stop is... 2 separate houses should be counted as 2 stops. A high rise apartment building with a front desk person to receive packages for their community mailroom/package room counts as the real "group stop" since he/she can sign for all those apartments in that given building... Amazon spies, see this and implement it!
The beta version of the Flex app is about to be pushed out to all the drivers. In it, you can ungroup a stop, or regroup a stop with different locations. , especially in apartment complexes.
The inside loadout seems very inconvenient. My station has 2 pads, 3 lanes, about 10 vans in each. it is outside on the side of the building with an awning, the staging area is right there, so you don't have to walk far at all. Also we can park our personal car right next to our van. Interesting to see how each station differs.
I trained quite a few Amazon drivers for USPS. None of them stayed. To be fair I think it was management that dropped the ball placing a new guy in my route to train. I do 713 houses a day, heavy mail and parcels. 10-11 hours daily non stop and 17 hours for the holidays. Amazon learned how to deliver with USPS but they only implemented the bad things. Feel for you guys.
That's interesting, currently, the Flex app will stop you from working more than 12 hours in any one day period, even if you still have packages. It will automatically remove them from your itinerary and tell you to RTS. I'm at one of the biggest stations in my state, and I don't know of any driver that gets that many stops. I think with UPSP is probably is easier to do that many because if you're in an urban or suburb area, you're just hitting one stop after the next, most houses get something. Whereas we can go into a subdivision have have 3 packed or 40 packages, it just varies, so we drive more between stops, and driving takes time. Thanks for watching!
@@MM-ig2zq I didn’t read your comment right. I thought you meant working at Amazon you were getting that many houses. There’s no competition bro. I comprehend what it takes very well. Doing these deliveries is nothing compared to the things I’ve done.
@@JonLevel2 it’s all good. Right out of the military I started working at USPS no way that I could have done right away what I do today. Took years of training and sweat. I trained some good ex Amazon drivers. But to have them in my route for someone that just started was overwhelming. I blame USPS management for this. End result these drivers left and I don’t blame them.
how are the drivers so chilled when loading.. in austria we had 10 minutes MAX... when you didnt finished you had to drive out and load it on a seperate parking spot
We have 20 minutes to load out. We also have a separate parking area for loading due to issues causing a delay, we call that the "milk run" area. Our station has 14 DSPs, and over 1,000 vans, it's a very large station. Thanks for watching, and I'd love to see how you guys do things. I'm curious about the similarities and the differences.
I worked at the station in Trenton NJ, chill dsp. We don’t load inside like yall but outside. I don’t log in to mentor or any of that mess😂. My shift is 9/9:30am - whatever time finished. Usually it’s 7-8pm latest for everyone else. I finish my route super early cause I rush it, I’m done by like 3-4pm and I’m already headed back cause I don’t rescue anyone. I get way more packages than what I saw, I’m like on 17-19 bags, 30-40 overflows and we delivered by Howell. Honestly chill job, i feel they treat drivers unfairly with all these driving infractions, I freaking hated that camera.
Yeah we have our SUM at 9:10, and load out is at 9:35, and same as you, we are done whenever we get everything delivered. The area I was delivering to in this video has a stem time of over an hour before I get to my first stop, so my stop count is lower since I will have driven almost 3 hours just to get out there and back. However, we recently had a DSP area change, and now we are back in suburbs. I've been in the EDV mostly recently, and was hit last week while stopped with the hazards on making a delivery, I was not in the EDV when the car hit it. I will make a video on the accident in the EDV but it really screwed my day up. I sat for 5 hours and 30 minutes for the police to arrive, and that day I have a nearly full EDV since it was during Prime2 peak. I keep hearing more and more DSP's have stopped using Mentor, but it seems like mine is rigidly holding onto it. I don't run, I do briskly walk, but I don't run. And I organize the back so I don't spend time looking for packages. Thanks for watching my video, I appreciate it. Be safe, and have a great day!!
@@Mestizo90 I don’t run either, I just got my headphones on, blast music and it goes by fast. If I ran which I tested it out out of curiosity I finish at 2pm. I have a way to organizing everything so I don’t have to look either. For example the first two bags that I work from I dump them in the front, overflows on the ground and the rest on the seats. Don’t have to go back and forth in the back and waste time, highest I’ve ever done was 65 stops an hour and that was like gated community. In the video delivering to places like that are amazing, low traffic, no long driveways. Mentor is still used at my dsp just some of us don’t log in😂 they don’t say anything really. Guess yours is more strict
oh yeah I love doing subdivisions, they are so easy and fast. I significantly dislike apartments. I have come to the conclusion recently that anyone who lives on the first floor of an apartment complex does not order from Amazon. In our new area, we have a LOT of apartments and I can't remember a single delivery on the first floor lol. And the flex app is seldom accurate on apartment locations, buildings and numbers, at least in this area lol.
@@Mestizo90 you are 150% correct, Amazon app is one of the worst to deal with. Lags, the pins are always wrong & idk about your dsp but here we used to do hard drops but now they want you to contact customer support. Theres a way to by pass that of course cause calling takes forever. Good luck to ya mate, stay safe
Yeah, the newest version of the ever evolving rules is for when there is a delivery problem is to, call customer twice, text customer then call driver support, that entire process gobbles p 10 minutes it seems like. My current MO is to just hit GPS not working, use my other phone with google maps, verify and deliver without GPS, take picture and be gone lol
@@Mestizo90 Yeah I grew up down there. I miss it somedays. My distribution area is Dayton Ohio and surrounding communities. Mainly downtown Dayton. I don't like the streets up here.
Just wondering, can you get some video footage of your station, how it works and layout and send it to me please? I'm wanting to get footage from several different areas of the country for another video I want to make?
In my own experience, as long as you stay organized, keep you repackages organized and sorted, you should be fine., Thanks for watching! I just posted a new video this morning.
Nice video (: I really loved the theme music LOL! I want this job I have a license, but it says 21+ and i'm 18 do you think by any chance I could still get hired?? I also live in Houston.
They are pretty strict on the age requirements. I'm not sure why, I don't know if its because some of our packages are prescriptions from Amazon's pharmacy, or because some products contain lithium-ion batteries in them. When I have a box that contains batteries, there is always a bi label saying caution. What you maybe can do is get hired on with a DSP in a non-driving role. I know at my DSP we have a 19 year old who does various things, but he does not drive yet. Maybe that's a possibility for you, not sure. Thanks for watching my video!
Another question. When you work ten hour days does that include the drive back from last stop? And also does the GPS tell you the exact stop you need to be at so that way you don’t have to keep inputting the addresses?
yes, the hours you work include all the driving to your first stop, all stops in between and your drive back to the station. Yes, the device called a Rabbit has gps and maps and routing software to help us.
Every driver has their own way or style I guess, but for me, I do not run, that's who you can get hurt. I walk briskly. I think the thing that helps me the most is being organized in the back with all your packages, overflow and totes. I've seen many drivers have different ways of being organized and what works for them. I have my way, and it is ever evolving, but I get my work done without exhausting myself. I think during peak is the only time I really truly hustle or on days where something has happened which put me way behind like when I got it in the EDV (electric delivery van) I was driving that day to make deliveries. I made a video and posted it. Thanks for watching!
I have a question, i had my first day today, and i saw all the drivers running to be able to load the vans , and when they are almost done, comes people saying ``lets go lets go, you have only 3 min`` they were saying that to all the drivers, but i feel they are aways in a rush, and in your video looks like its more chill about that, what do you think about it , do you think that depends on the company/dsp ?
Each day can be different, different load sizes etc. The day I recorded this, I have a very low amount of tote and packages and overflow. So there was no need to rush, and we were all done before the time limit. We definitely have days when we get close to the time limit and someone from the warehouse is yelling out time remaining lol. Usually this is during peak or just unusually heavy days. Thanks for Watching.
I work in that station for jfam for me is very easy any route the most important in this place is you can be outside if you don’t see you itinerary and your route and organization of your overflow I been ther for almost 2 years I make and complete any routes apt neighbor country trenches adhoc n flex in this job you can’t walk slowly cause obviously you gonna be behind in nobody want help after her route.
Thanks for watching, I'm with SPDC. We are done with county routes and are back in Houston finally lol. I agree, organization is key. I walk fast, but do not run and I usually finish early. If you see me at the station, come say hello.
Each driver has a device that we call the "rabbit", and it has all the information we will need for every stop and every package we have on the van. It also has maps and routing we can use and edit as we need to in order to be efficient.
How many stops you had that day? Your van seems empty, I usually get like 20+bags and 30+overflow around 190+ stops around 357 packages wanna trade? Lol
It is a rural route, so I only had about 100 stops. My stem time to my first stop is 1 hour 30 minutes and the same back so I spend 3 hours just driving there and back and each stop is spread out, so I work but not physically lol.. But since then we have moved back into the suburbs so I'm carrying about 130-1560 stops in the EDV. Thanks for watching!
Do they pay you per hour? Correct. If you finish your shift before 8 hours, do you still get paid for full time? Like Amazon Flex. I do Amazon Flex and always finish 1 hour before at least.
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like it. It does get better and easier once you're done with your ride alongs and nursery routes. Depending on which DSP someone is with can have a significant impact on your happiness with your job. My DSP is really good, in my opinion. Thank you for watching, and I hope you find something else that you enjoy!!
Depends on the DSP, each are different. Mine pays higher than most and we get bonuses. I feel like my DSP is good to us and is supportive. But I have heard of bad DSP's,, so it's important to ask around and compare DSPs.
If a driver is behind, for whatever reason, and they are unlikely to complete their route on time, another driver will come and "rescue" some or all of the packages you have left, depending on the circumstances of why you need rescuing. ... well really, they rescue the packages, not the driver lol.In the most recent video I posted as of today, I was driving an EDV (Electric Delivery Van) and was hit. I had to wait over 6 hours for the police to arrive and do their report. There was no way I was getting my route done, so they sent 4 rescue drivers who each took 2 or 3 totes.
@@Mestizo90 okay cause I’m gonna start working soon. How does your first few days go like? Are you training with someone before they throw you off on your own?
@@teddysworldinsane7382 You will go through 3 days of Amazon training in the classroom which will end with a driving road test in an Amazon van, either gas or electric. During that time you will learn basic Amazon policies, help active drivers during load out so that you learn how to load your own van, learn how to use the rabbit. After your 3 days, you are sent to your DSP who will do 2 more days of training out on the road on a real route with real packages and a trainer will be with you. Once you're done with that, you will start driving on your own, but you will have what is called "nursery routes", which means a very small route so that you can go slow and continue to learn and talk to your dispatcher and get more help from Driver Support. You will have small nursery routes for about a month. Once you're doing ok, they will slowly start increasing your loads and you will eventually get to normal size loads. A nursery route will have about 4 or 5 totes, 50-60 stops and maybe 100 packages. You will probably have that done within 5 hours easily. A full normal route can vary depending on where you are delivering to, my current loads have been averaging between 160 to 200 stops with up to 300 packages.
1, at the present time, I'm happy where I am at. 2, I have no clue what UPS is like or if they'd want me or what the process is to become a driver, though I've heard stories about having to be seasonal and do sorting before becoming a driver, and I don't want seasonal work. 3, I get customers who know when I am arriving and have some interesting and sometimes unusual conversations with them that I've grown to like, and I enjoy seeing them happy with me delivering whatever it was they were waiting for. 4, I enjoy a pretty easy schedule and flexible time off. 5, My current leadership is pretty good, and I enjoy working with them. They have been honest, respectful and supportive of me.
I've heard so many different statements about what UPS is paying that I really don't know what is true and accurate. I've heard drivers lease their truck or own it and are independent contractors, I've heard they get paid $150,000 but pay for their own gas, maintenance etc, I've heard they get $50,000. There's no way for me to know what is accurate. Can you contact me directly?
Well what you couldn't see was there were Rivian vans, EDV's, behind me also. Thanks for watching, I just posted a new video about country routes this morning.
I've been a DA for over a year and a half now, Dont forget to close your side door! I've seen people getting fired for keeping it open. Packages could fly out
Lmfao wow that’s cake, Miami average stops a day is ATLEAST no less than 130 and you’ll never see less than 260 packages, I’ve been steady getting 320-400 packages daily
yeah these rural routes are very low on stops and packages, just because of the stem time and how spread out each stop is from the next. They are so relaxing and nice. Comparing that to my route yesterday in the city, I had 173 stops and 311 packages. Add to that that every single apartment I had was on the 2nd or 3rd, floor. I've concluded that first floor apartment residents don't order on Amazon lol. Thank you for watching :-)
I recorded this during the heat wave when we had temps over 100 for 45 consecutive days. EOC was waived. the van will never cool off enough to get cold just from one stop to the next. So the air blows cold so I just point it on me and move on. Thanks for watching.
Sorry, I'm new to video editing and TH-cam. There was only music in the beginning and end. But I'll try to add more music and make it audible in future videos, thanks !
If I did, I didn't mean to and I'm sorry. It's a small world, Fedex, UPS and Amazon drivers are always switching back and forth and we get to know each other locally. Thanks for watching.
Idk, the so called "expert" that I trained with couldn't do anything close to 180 stops, let alone the one that lied to me about doing 187 stops with a coveted 800 - 430 schedule, yeah that's great if you don't have to rescue anyone but that 430 can easily turn into 6, 7, 8 , etc. you don't have a lot time before you have to be back after not being able to move and do it again and again, etc . . . I don't know what kind of b.s. they think anyone will believe . . .
LMAO. well, that's if you're a slow driver, slow rate of delivery. All the DSPs around here had an area change 1 week before Prime 2 and now I ma back in the suburbs of Houston. My lat shift was 155 stops, 291 packages. One stop had 21 packages lol. It's always fun to delivery to them, they are very friendly and have drinks outside for drivers, they make TH-cam videos, more professional than mine lol.
HA, no one does, but we got to take the good with the bad, that's just how life is. Thank you for watching and hope you keep watching as I make more videos.
Well I have rural routes about 1/3 of the time. With rural routes you get a lot less stops and packages, but it still takes a while because of the very long drive out to the country and the distance between each stop. When I get more city routes, I'm full like you're probably used to seeing.
HA, well after this video, I was moved to an even more rural route, I posted a video of it. But as of Oct 2023 we moved back into the suburbs and city and I'm driving the EDV most all of the time. How far out is your route from your station? In the 2nd video of my rural route after I was moved farther out, my stem time was 1 hour and 20 minutes just to get to my first stop. I can't decide which I like better, rural or suburbs and city. They both have good and bad. Anyhow, thanks for watching.
the music choice was interesting
DUDE, you and FridayAdventureClub are the reasons I get into DSP driving. I watch all your vides!! Between the two of you, I've learned so much more. Thanks so much for the comment. I'm going to post another soon to show my rural deliveries.
Felt like an intro to Toy Story 😅
😂😂
Thanks for sharing. I'm about to begin at DH08 in a few days and needed a more detailed POV on how the daily delivery process went. Well done.
nice, hope you enjoy, hope you do good and feel free to reach out to me if you need anything, and thank you for watching.
@@Mestizo90I need help lol
That is the lightest load out I’ve ever seen. My nursery routes were double that😩
Indeed, I have an hour and half drive to the first stop, and same when I RTS, so there's 3 hours in just going and coming. Additionally, the stops are pretty far apart, sometime's I'll drive 5-10 minutes between stops. So it takes a while to do even though I didn't have as many stops as a normal city route would have. Thanks for watching, I'm going to be posting a longer rural video in a day or two showing all the turkeys, horses, long driveways etc.
@@anthonymercado8126 what do those look like in terms of how many stops, locations, packages? Because I feel like I never had a route that was less than 8 hours lol
Well my first stop is about an hour and half from the station. The average day had about 80-110 stops, so not too many. It took about 6 hours to finish, then another hour and half drive back. It's an easy route physically, it just takes time cuz it's so far out and the stops are not close together, I have now posted a video on rural routes, country roads recently. However, we have since had a DSP area change since making this video, and we are now back in the suburbs and I've been in the EDV a lot recently. Thank you for watching!!
I just signed back on with a Dsp after working for FedEx ground for 3 years can't wait to start delivering those smiles again, awesome video.
Thanks for watching the video, what station or area are you in? How are the DSPs there?
@@Mestizo90 I work out of WNY-1 Conklin, NY and the DSP I work for are amazing and are on top of everything, they are there at the terminal every day and are very Approachable with making a request, as for the other Dsp's I'm honestly not sure how good they are.
@@Mestizo90 are the benefit's good?
Good evening just wondering if like it ?
How are those smiles going ?
I hope more DSPs can assign the same drivers to the same areas daily, and hopefully with the same vans...so they'll know the area knowledge on when to ignore the robot navigation and do what you explained... less stress that way and better overall service for the customers. Plus you'll know by memory which houses has good or bad dogs.
bouncing back and forth like a ping pong ball from one area to the next daily for swing drivers stinks.
Yeah it would be nice, but that's not how Amazon does it, so all we can do is make the best of what we have. I think by being organized, studying your route on the rabbit before you leave the station and having a backup map tool can really help with some common issues. Of course, that won't help with apartments and businesses lol. Thanks for watching!!
Or we can apply to UPS! @@Mestizo90
In England we are not allowed to just leave the parcel at the doorstep because anyone could just steal it, we have to knock and wait for then to answer and if not in place in the customers safe location if given one and put inside a weather proof bag. Ylu guys have it so easy being able to just leave it at the door.
So often there is no on home, with the size of routes we can in cities, if we have to knock on every door and wait for a response, we would never get out packages delivered. We often look for a place we can leave the package that is not visible from the road and take the picture so that the customer knows where we left their package since they get the picture of the package delivery.
people dont really steal much here thank god, only issues really is during the holidays with porch pirates
I enjoyed this video, thanks.
thank you for watching!! Hope you watch some more while I rush to edit even more that I've recorded.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching
You done great video thanks for sharing keep bless day time with you
thanks for watching, hope you watch some new videos.
Thanks for the detail on how you organize your packages.
You're welcome, although I've changed it up a bit and found a much faster way. email me or contact me and I can explain my new way and you'll see that it's so much faster.
Amazon got to redefine what a group stop is... 2 separate houses should be counted as 2 stops.
A high rise apartment building with a front desk person to receive packages for their community mailroom/package room counts as the real "group stop" since he/she can sign for all those apartments in that given building...
Amazon spies, see this and implement it!
The beta version of the Flex app is about to be pushed out to all the drivers. In it, you can ungroup a stop, or regroup a stop with different locations. , especially in apartment complexes.
Thats why we beed the union 😮
The inside loadout seems very inconvenient. My station has 2 pads, 3 lanes, about 10 vans in each. it is outside on the side of the building with an awning, the staging area is right there, so you don't have to walk far at all. Also we can park our personal car right next to our van. Interesting to see how each station differs.
Some of these Amazon drivers are crazy drivers.
Great video of Amazon Ware house.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you 😁
I trained quite a few Amazon drivers for USPS. None of them stayed. To be fair I think it was management that dropped the ball placing a new guy in my route to train. I do 713 houses a day, heavy mail and parcels. 10-11 hours daily non stop and 17 hours for the holidays. Amazon learned how to deliver with USPS but they only implemented the bad things. Feel for you guys.
That's interesting, currently, the Flex app will stop you from working more than 12 hours in any one day period, even if you still have packages. It will automatically remove them from your itinerary and tell you to RTS. I'm at one of the biggest stations in my state, and I don't know of any driver that gets that many stops. I think with UPSP is probably is easier to do that many because if you're in an urban or suburb area, you're just hitting one stop after the next, most houses get something. Whereas we can go into a subdivision have have 3 packed or 40 packages, it just varies, so we drive more between stops, and driving takes time. Thanks for watching!
I get 340 packages average and I’m one far from slow. I never work more than 10 hours. I don’t see how you get 713 houses.
@@JonLevel2 that’s called being a professional and doing this for over 30 years. Something you can not comprehend or achieve working for Amazon.
@@MM-ig2zq I didn’t read your comment right. I thought you meant working at Amazon you were getting that many houses. There’s no competition bro. I comprehend what it takes very well. Doing these deliveries is nothing compared to the things I’ve done.
@@JonLevel2 it’s all good. Right out of the military I started working at USPS no way that I could have done right away what I do today. Took years of training and sweat. I trained some good ex Amazon drivers. But to have them in my route for someone that just started was overwhelming. I blame USPS management for this. End result these drivers left and I don’t blame them.
Just got hired today your video was very thorough thank you!
Best of luck!! Remember, don't get involved with DSP politics, just do the job you were hired to do, have fun doing it and go home.
Great content. I don't think you need to use the emergency break on every stop. That van is not going to roll when its in park 😂
I agree but Amazon now measures this and is pushing it to the DSP's to enforce.
its not an emergency brake its a hand brake its designed to be used cars are not meant to be left in park with no hand brake on
how are the drivers so chilled when loading.. in austria we had 10 minutes MAX... when you didnt finished you had to drive out and load it on a seperate parking spot
We have 20 minutes to load out. We also have a separate parking area for loading due to issues causing a delay, we call that the "milk run" area. Our station has 14 DSPs, and over 1,000 vans, it's a very large station. Thanks for watching, and I'd love to see how you guys do things. I'm curious about the similarities and the differences.
I'm at DAU5 and I'm in love.
Intro brought some many movie memories 😂
Yessir!
Thanks, I've uploaded a new video this morning that about rural routes, farm animals etc. Hope you enjoy!
That starter must be begging for mercy
By the camera watching us you mean the road right? Not on our face?
I just got flashbacks haha I'm supposed to be at work on Thursday I'm not looking forward to that😂
What station do you work at?
Must be crazy hot there in the summer.
last summer it reached 110 for over a month. But we manage and get by. Thanks for watching.
Wonder how often after delivery then catching up new one next day more full piles ? Lol
I worked at the station in Trenton NJ, chill dsp. We don’t load inside like yall but outside. I don’t log in to mentor or any of that mess😂. My shift is 9/9:30am - whatever time finished. Usually it’s 7-8pm latest for everyone else. I finish my route super early cause I rush it, I’m done by like 3-4pm and I’m already headed back cause I don’t rescue anyone. I get way more packages than what I saw, I’m like on 17-19 bags, 30-40 overflows and we delivered by Howell. Honestly chill job, i feel they treat drivers unfairly with all these driving infractions, I freaking hated that camera.
Yeah we have our SUM at 9:10, and load out is at 9:35, and same as you, we are done whenever we get everything delivered. The area I was delivering to in this video has a stem time of over an hour before I get to my first stop, so my stop count is lower since I will have driven almost 3 hours just to get out there and back. However, we recently had a DSP area change, and now we are back in suburbs. I've been in the EDV mostly recently, and was hit last week while stopped with the hazards on making a delivery, I was not in the EDV when the car hit it. I will make a video on the accident in the EDV but it really screwed my day up. I sat for 5 hours and 30 minutes for the police to arrive, and that day I have a nearly full EDV since it was during Prime2 peak. I keep hearing more and more DSP's have stopped using Mentor, but it seems like mine is rigidly holding onto it. I don't run, I do briskly walk, but I don't run. And I organize the back so I don't spend time looking for packages. Thanks for watching my video, I appreciate it. Be safe, and have a great day!!
@@Mestizo90 I don’t run either, I just got my headphones on, blast music and it goes by fast. If I ran which I tested it out out of curiosity I finish at 2pm. I have a way to organizing everything so I don’t have to look either. For example the first two bags that I work from I dump them in the front, overflows on the ground and the rest on the seats. Don’t have to go back and forth in the back and waste time, highest I’ve ever done was 65 stops an hour and that was like gated community. In the video delivering to places like that are amazing, low traffic, no long driveways. Mentor is still used at my dsp just some of us don’t log in😂 they don’t say anything really. Guess yours is more strict
oh yeah I love doing subdivisions, they are so easy and fast. I significantly dislike apartments. I have come to the conclusion recently that anyone who lives on the first floor of an apartment complex does not order from Amazon. In our new area, we have a LOT of apartments and I can't remember a single delivery on the first floor lol. And the flex app is seldom accurate on apartment locations, buildings and numbers, at least in this area lol.
@@Mestizo90 you are 150% correct, Amazon app is one of the worst to deal with. Lags, the pins are always wrong & idk about your dsp but here we used to do hard drops but now they want you to contact customer support. Theres a way to by pass that of course cause calling takes forever. Good luck to ya mate, stay safe
Yeah, the newest version of the ever evolving rules is for when there is a delivery problem is to, call customer twice, text customer then call driver support, that entire process gobbles p 10 minutes it seems like. My current MO is to just hit GPS not working, use my other phone with google maps, verify and deliver without GPS, take picture and be gone lol
This look like the building I work in Houston Texas.
Plus you stay cool on a hot day
Hey! That's 249 in Tomball! you be safe out there man you know them Houston drivers be crazy. My aunt lives out there and mom.
Thanks for watching. It wasn't Tomball, but you are close.
@@Mestizo90 Yeah I grew up down there. I miss it somedays. My distribution area is Dayton Ohio and surrounding communities. Mainly downtown Dayton. I don't like the streets up here.
When's the last time you were down here in the Houston area? It's growing very fast.
@@Mestizo90 last Christmas I think. Yeah thats what I heard.
Just wondering, can you get some video footage of your station, how it works and layout and send it to me please? I'm wanting to get footage from several different areas of the country for another video I want to make?
Toy Story music vibes 😅 I start my first day tmrw here in Tualatin Oregon fingers crossed it goes well I used to be a school bus driver
In my own experience, as long as you stay organized, keep you repackages organized and sorted, you should be fine., Thanks for watching! I just posted a new video this morning.
How did you first day and week go?
It was great I was sweating bullets tho!!!! Never realized how intensive it’d be for sure
There’s no need to put the fuzzy boxes over the vehicles in front of you.
I start training next week. It's too cold to mobile detail now.
What station will you be at? Do you know the station code?
After I quit trucking, I definitely would drive for Amazon
isn’t trucking better though?
Nice video (: I really loved the theme music LOL! I want this job I have a license, but it says 21+ and i'm 18 do you think by any chance I could still get hired?? I also live in Houston.
They are pretty strict on the age requirements. I'm not sure why, I don't know if its because some of our packages are prescriptions from Amazon's pharmacy, or because some products contain lithium-ion batteries in them. When I have a box that contains batteries, there is always a bi label saying caution. What you maybe can do is get hired on with a DSP in a non-driving role. I know at my DSP we have a 19 year old who does various things, but he does not drive yet. Maybe that's a possibility for you, not sure. Thanks for watching my video!
I know some one working on amazon and making tiktoks, they used the videos as proof and out the door was the person looking for another job
Cool video
Do you happen to be in Waco Texas? That’s where I live and I applied there still haven’t heard anything
Sorry no, I'm down in the Houston area. What station did you apply at? I don't see an Amazon delivery station in Waco.
@Mestizo90 it's fairly new been here about a year its a warehouse but also delivery
What camera are you using?
Another question. When you work ten hour days does that include the drive back from last stop? And also does the GPS tell you the exact stop you need to be at so that way you don’t have to keep inputting the addresses?
yes, the hours you work include all the driving to your first stop, all stops in between and your drive back to the station. Yes, the device called a Rabbit has gps and maps and routing software to help us.
Looks like Houston based off roads 👀
What do you do about lunch and bathroom?
You get 2 15 min paid breaks and 1 30 min unpaid break. Bathroom for a dude would just be a porta potty or bring an empty bottle
Do you often have to really hustle to maintain a good pace or are you always just walking at a normal pace?
Every driver has their own way or style I guess, but for me, I do not run, that's who you can get hurt. I walk briskly. I think the thing that helps me the most is being organized in the back with all your packages, overflow and totes. I've seen many drivers have different ways of being organized and what works for them. I have my way, and it is ever evolving, but I get my work done without exhausting myself. I think during peak is the only time I really truly hustle or on days where something has happened which put me way behind like when I got it in the EDV (electric delivery van) I was driving that day to make deliveries. I made a video and posted it. Thanks for watching!
MY BOY AT DHO3 !!!!! I work at DHO8!
hey thanks for watching... , who you with?
I have a question, i had my first day today, and i saw all the drivers running to be able to load the vans , and when they are almost done, comes people saying ``lets go lets go, you have only 3 min`` they were saying that to all the drivers, but i feel they are aways in a rush, and in your video looks like its more chill about that, what do you think about it , do you think that depends on the company/dsp ?
Each day can be different, different load sizes etc. The day I recorded this, I have a very low amount of tote and packages and overflow. So there was no need to rush, and we were all done before the time limit. We definitely have days when we get close to the time limit and someone from the warehouse is yelling out time remaining lol. Usually this is during peak or just unusually heavy days. Thanks for Watching.
I work in that station for jfam for me is very easy any route the most important in this place is you can be outside if you don’t see you itinerary and your route and organization of your overflow I been ther for almost 2 years I make and complete any routes apt neighbor country trenches adhoc n flex in this job you can’t walk slowly cause obviously you gonna be behind in nobody want help after her route.
Thanks for watching, I'm with SPDC. We are done with county routes and are back in Houston finally lol. I agree, organization is key. I walk fast, but do not run and I usually finish early. If you see me at the station, come say hello.
Best work shoes/boots in your opinion for this job?
Never wear boots bro never😂😂
I wore Oncloud shoes, love them, they absorb the impact of each time to hop out of that van, super easy on your joints. I get them at REI.
Im too old to run every stop (59), fo you have to be able to to keep up?
I do not run. I walk fast and I try to stay very organized in the back. Thanks for watching !
Which one is that. I have a job interview the dho3 location
That's my station, which DSP are you interviewing with?
How do you know where to go?
Each driver has a device that we call the "rabbit", and it has all the information we will need for every stop and every package we have on the van. It also has maps and routing we can use and edit as we need to in order to be efficient.
How many stops you had that day? Your van seems empty, I usually get like 20+bags and 30+overflow around 190+ stops around 357 packages wanna trade? Lol
It is a rural route, so I only had about 100 stops. My stem time to my first stop is 1 hour 30 minutes and the same back so I spend 3 hours just driving there and back and each stop is spread out, so I work but not physically lol.. But since then we have moved back into the suburbs so I'm carrying about 130-1560 stops in the EDV. Thanks for watching!
The amazon i work at in ny is like walking into a weed factory/immigration office
Do they pay you per hour? Correct. If you finish your shift before 8 hours, do you still get paid for full time? Like Amazon Flex. I do Amazon Flex and always finish 1 hour before at least.
I get paid hourly and thanks for watching!
I've driven sprinters
thanks for watching. I mostly drove the EDV's. But I do like the Sprinters when I don't have so many packages.
I started my ride along two days ago, after they had me do 12 hours shift I said this is not for me. So I put in my resignation the next morning
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't like it. It does get better and easier once you're done with your ride alongs and nursery routes. Depending on which DSP someone is with can have a significant impact on your happiness with your job. My DSP is really good, in my opinion. Thank you for watching, and I hope you find something else that you enjoy!!
how much is the starting rate? thanks
Depends on the DSP, each are different. Mine pays higher than most and we get bonuses. I feel like my DSP is good to us and is supportive. But I have heard of bad DSP's,, so it's important to ask around and compare DSPs.
What’s it mean to rescue someone?
If a driver is behind, for whatever reason, and they are unlikely to complete their route on time, another driver will come and "rescue" some or all of the packages you have left, depending on the circumstances of why you need rescuing. ... well really, they rescue the packages, not the driver lol.In the most recent video I posted as of today, I was driving an EDV (Electric Delivery Van) and was hit. I had to wait over 6 hours for the police to arrive and do their report. There was no way I was getting my route done, so they sent 4 rescue drivers who each took 2 or 3 totes.
@@Mestizo90 okay cause I’m gonna start working soon. How does your first few days go like? Are you training with someone before they throw you off on your own?
@@teddysworldinsane7382 You will go through 3 days of Amazon training in the classroom which will end with a driving road test in an Amazon van, either gas or electric. During that time you will learn basic Amazon policies, help active drivers during load out so that you learn how to load your own van, learn how to use the rabbit. After your 3 days, you are sent to your DSP who will do 2 more days of training out on the road on a real route with real packages and a trainer will be with you. Once you're done with that, you will start driving on your own, but you will have what is called "nursery routes", which means a very small route so that you can go slow and continue to learn and talk to your dispatcher and get more help from Driver Support. You will have small nursery routes for about a month. Once you're doing ok, they will slowly start increasing your loads and you will eventually get to normal size loads. A nursery route will have about 4 or 5 totes, 50-60 stops and maybe 100 packages. You will probably have that done within 5 hours easily. A full normal route can vary depending on where you are delivering to, my current loads have been averaging between 160 to 200 stops with up to 300 packages.
As a Fedex courier, do you only delivery? who collects parcels from senders? other courier?
amazon doesnt really have pickups usually they send you to ups/usps here in usa
I just delivery, sometimes pickups at Amazon lockers. I delivery for Amazon not FedEx.
My dsp is the last the go in
oh that kinda sucks, you prob don't get off until late
Give me one reason why you won’t come to UPS and drive?
1, at the present time, I'm happy where I am at. 2, I have no clue what UPS is like or if they'd want me or what the process is to become a driver, though I've heard stories about having to be seasonal and do sorting before becoming a driver, and I don't want seasonal work. 3, I get customers who know when I am arriving and have some interesting and sometimes unusual conversations with them that I've grown to like, and I enjoy seeing them happy with me delivering whatever it was they were waiting for. 4, I enjoy a pretty easy schedule and flexible time off. 5, My current leadership is pretty good, and I enjoy working with them. They have been honest, respectful and supportive of me.
@@Mestizo90 all that sounds amazing… missing one important issue…$$$ ups is paying like CRAZY.. enjoy your day sir
I've heard so many different statements about what UPS is paying that I really don't know what is true and accurate. I've heard drivers lease their truck or own it and are independent contractors, I've heard they get paid $150,000 but pay for their own gas, maintenance etc, I've heard they get $50,000. There's no way for me to know what is accurate. Can you contact me directly?
@@Mestizo90 yea we need to talk none of that is true me being a driver for 17 years (except for the pay)
cool, reach out to me please.
AN HOUR AND 20 AWAY?!?!1
look at all those riven vans
that went in before him
Well what you couldn't see was there were Rivian vans, EDV's, behind me also. Thanks for watching, I just posted a new video about country routes this morning.
I've been a DA for over a year and a half now, Dont forget to close your side door! I've seen people getting fired for keeping it open. Packages could fly out
Thanks for the oops reminder and thanks for watching :-)
If I’m not going over 30 mph my side door stays open. They try something my dispatcher is going down with me 😂
dude your station is huge
Well I am here in Texas lol. What station are you at?
Which DSP your with?
contact me privately and I'll tell you. Thanks for watching.
Lmfao wow that’s cake, Miami average stops a day is ATLEAST no less than 130 and you’ll never see less than 260 packages, I’ve been steady getting 320-400 packages daily
yeah these rural routes are very low on stops and packages, just because of the stem time and how spread out each stop is from the next. They are so relaxing and nice. Comparing that to my route yesterday in the city, I had 173 stops and 311 packages. Add to that that every single apartment I had was on the 2nd or 3rd, floor. I've concluded that first floor apartment residents don't order on Amazon lol. Thank you for watching :-)
aircon with opened doors wtf bro
I recorded this during the heat wave when we had temps over 100 for 45 consecutive days. EOC was waived. the van will never cool off enough to get cold just from one stop to the next. So the air blows cold so I just point it on me and move on. Thanks for watching.
music was too quiet
Sorry, I'm new to video editing and TH-cam. There was only music in the beginning and end. But I'll try to add more music and make it audible in future videos, thanks !
Don’t diss FedEx
If I did, I didn't mean to and I'm sorry. It's a small world, Fedex, UPS and Amazon drivers are always switching back and forth and we get to know each other locally. Thanks for watching.
Idk, the so called "expert" that I trained with couldn't do anything close to 180 stops, let alone the one that lied to me about doing 187 stops with a coveted 800 - 430 schedule, yeah that's great if you don't have to rescue anyone but that 430 can easily turn into 6, 7, 8 , etc. you don't have a lot time before you have to be back after not being able to move and do it again and again, etc . . . I don't know what kind of b.s. they think anyone will believe . . .
Disney music
if it really was start the finish, the video would had been 14 hours and 5 min long lol
LMAO. well, that's if you're a slow driver, slow rate of delivery. All the DSPs around here had an area change 1 week before Prime 2 and now I ma back in the suburbs of Houston. My lat shift was 155 stops, 291 packages. One stop had 21 packages lol. It's always fun to delivery to them, they are very friendly and have drinks outside for drivers, they make TH-cam videos, more professional than mine lol.
I average 200 stops per day it gets old!..... Good video though.
After this video out in the country, my DSP returned to the suburbs of Houston and we regularly averages 250 stops.
I work here too bruh lol
cool. I've never seen your car at the station lol. Are you with my DSP?
watching amazon drivers drive and come to the conclusion that most have to be fired Swift, fedex, england drivers
why is that? and thanks for watching. I have never worked for Fedex, Swift or England trucking. Hope you watch some of my newer videos
Interview for DGE7 tomorrow
Good luck and thanks for watching. I've been to Atlanta a few times, mostly Roswell, Buckhead, Marietta areas.
Bro we're co-workers 😂
Are you at my DSP?
@@Mestizo90 yeah!
Can you message me in sling? I don't know your name lol.
Mario C. ?
Easiest job
Yeah as long as everything goes right in the process, it's not had. Thanks for watching!
I’m pretty sure this is amazons stuff that they don’t want all over TH-cam. You’re gonna get flagged bro.
gosh ihate spread routes
HA, no one does, but we got to take the good with the bad, that's just how life is. Thank you for watching and hope you keep watching as I make more videos.
Worst job ever lol
I thought it was pretty easy.
Man that looks easy. when i drove for amazon its always full front to back. loved the drive/walking but hated the management
Well I have rural routes about 1/3 of the time. With rural routes you get a lot less stops and packages, but it still takes a while because of the very long drive out to the country and the distance between each stop. When I get more city routes, I'm full like you're probably used to seeing.
Ur rural route is nothing compare to mine bro🥲
HA, well after this video, I was moved to an even more rural route, I posted a video of it. But as of Oct 2023 we moved back into the suburbs and city and I'm driving the EDV most all of the time. How far out is your route from your station? In the 2nd video of my rural route after I was moved farther out, my stem time was 1 hour and 20 minutes just to get to my first stop. I can't decide which I like better, rural or suburbs and city. They both have good and bad. Anyhow, thanks for watching.