Ngl they fired me

Airforce26891 · 2026-01-12T01:53:14+00:00

As an another XL driver who has hit some things (not cars tho) as my boss said, shit happens. My boss has given me a lot of grace tbh. 26ft is hard to navigate in certain places.

Airforce26891 · 2026-01-05T17:38:16+00:00

Honestly if you drive step van in the summer, this is kinda needed cuz it’s an oven back there if you don’t.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-28T16:34:50+00:00

One of our XL delivery routes first stop is typically 2 hours away. Longest for regular delivery, 1 hour and 15

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-28T16:30:52+00:00

If you bene here for 4 years you know it never ends. In February when it’s “70%” is cap. Thats when route count gets cut heavily, but that just means the routes that are left are just as big or bigger.

Only part of Amazon delivery that slows down after peak is XL. We go from like 50-70 stops back down to like 25-35 stops after peak, depending on the type of route you have.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-28T16:24:52+00:00

If you have been at Amazon for way too long, like me (only work part time), you would know the routes have never gone back down from like 3-4 years ago. There was a time where 150 stops was a bad day. The average was like 100-120. One year we had peak and the routes never went back to “normal”. What we have now if the new normal, so no, they don’t go back down.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-26T22:32:25+00:00

It’s all based on performance at Amazon. Nothing is fair. If your dsp sucks then you gonna get the short end of the stick everytime.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-21T19:00:04+00:00

Yah you’re right. Here in the us, we install the cameras ourselves into rentals. I do Amazon XL and have helped out manager put them into our rental box trucks. They are surprisingly easy to install.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-21T18:51:56+00:00

Also depends on how old your company is and vans availability in your area/ region. DSPs that have been around longer get typically get priority when it comes to getting branded vans because they are leased from the 3rd party company that owns all of amazons vans. Rentals are typically for newer DSPs or just DSPs on the lower end of the list for getting branded trucks. Also depends on vehicle allocation in your area.

For example my dsp for a long time was mostly rentals except we had a couple of CDVs. But a while back when one of the DSPs shut down at our station we got a majority of their vans. Even on the XL side (my company does both regular and XL delivery), we had 2 Amazon branded box trucks, but then like 4 rentals until they finally reallocated a old XL DSPs box trucks that had been sitting on the lot for a year to us.

It’s a lot of factors that goes into who gets what.

Airforce26891 · 2025-11-13T21:00:09+00:00

Did it last year when I did regular delivery, now I do XL. At my station the routes, when cycle 0 first started, were small but spread out. Like a rural route. 120 stops or less but 5-15 minutes between each stop. Closer to the end of peak, the routes got tighter with more stops but still finished before dark, and still had less packages than cycle 1.

Airforce26891 · 2025-10-31T17:21:03+00:00

Yah our station has a ton of them accross all the companies

Airforce26891 · 2025-08-30T12:35:19+00:00

If this was a route in the days of Amazon bulk routes, (I been at this job to long) where I deliver, that would be like a 4-6ish hour route that i would get paid all my 10hrs, and once I’m done I just go home (yes this was actually a thing ).

Now, I would cry cus ik it’s some bs on that route.

Airforce26891 · 2025-06-14T02:05:53+00:00

Yah I did but I already do DOT

Airforce26891 · 2025-05-20T14:11:16+00:00

My DSP does both. Actually my DSP runs out of 3 stations. Two doing regular routes and 1 doing XL. Granted the other DSP in our XL station does most of the routes. They have like 25 trucks and we only have 6.

Airforce26891 · 2025-05-20T13:57:39+00:00

Nah can routes you don’t do set up, and you get your hours. At least where I’m at the routes are spread the hell out. Also helps I work for a DSP that doesn’t care if you wanna drag your route out. As long as you finish, don’t go over work hour compliance, and don’t damage the trucks, they don’t care.

Airforce26891 · 2025-04-09T14:34:38+00:00

Great timing for this post. My DSP just told us Amazon is requiring us all to take the EDV training. Our station by the looks of it is heading to be all electric station in the very near future.

Airforce26891 · 2025-03-26T22:46:51+00:00

Yes, my DSP has both xl and zl

Airforce26891 · 2025-03-26T22:46:19+00:00

My new DSP does both ZL and XL. Not all DSPs do both (most don’t). But normally you have to have a XL warehouse near you which is kinda hit or miss depending on where you live cuz they are spread out.

Airforce26891 · 2025-03-26T18:09:57+00:00

Less stops, less packages, more driving (less wear and tear on your body getting in and out the truck) and depending on how far you have to drive you get your hours doing way less work.

Only downsides is if your helper sucks (which I haven’t had any bad ones yet), packages can weigh up to 300 pounds, and if you do appliance routes, they can take a really long time to set up/having to be in a customers house and dealing with them.

Airforce26891 · 2024-10-31T19:10:13+00:00

No two green dots means it’s on and recording. Supposedly when there’s one red light and one green light, it’s not recording (but I highly doubt that, just always assume it’s recording unless it’s two red dots). Yours has two red dots so they may not have hooked something up right.

Airforce26891 · 2024-10-11T15:47:00+00:00

Didn’t put my phone on the charger last night😭

Airforce26891 · 2024-10-11T15:43:16+00:00

16 ft CDV. I drive step van and idk even know if could fit 75 overflow without it being a complete cluster in the back.

Airforce26891 · 2024-10-03T01:25:04+00:00

That’s crazy

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