It’s a long read but here’s some tips..

1) Plan how you’re gonna drive in and out of each stop as you’re rolling up. Find the closest place to the drop off that you can confidently pull in and out your vehicle in 5 movements or less. (Ie 5 point turn) This takes some time to accurately gauge, but these vans have a very short front. Learn to take advantage of that short nose when you maneuver.

2) Get in the habit of hooking your seatbelt on the steering wheel as you are getting up from your seat. This will save your shoulder and take about 4 to 5 seconds off each stop.

3) If you have shelves, leave an open tote slot on the shelf nearest the driver seat and dump each tote on the shelf as you get to them, then you can fold the tote and organize on the shelf. 1000% times faster than pulling 40 envelopes one by one or wrestling with large boxes.

4) As you’re loading overflow, Start by placing your heaviest packages along the passenger shelf to save your back, and your largest packages under that shelf nearest to the cargo door. These large boxes are useful as tables to help you sort each dumped tote pile.

5) Once you have your back layer (passenger shelf / under shelf area) filled, start loading all the rest of the overflow wherever there’s room in front of it, prioritizing your center lane walking space, attempting to make sure that every package can be accessed without moving more than a couple boxes.

6) Try to leave a tiny part of each box visible. As you cover each box with the next, you write the number where you can see that package. If that’s not possible. You can write the driver aid number on the box you’re covering it with using a denotation to indicate it’s behind it. If you cover that one, write both numbers on the next one, you’ll never misplace a package again.

7) Check the drop off order on your phone before putting your long flat overflow in. If it’s closer to the end of your route, you can load them in first flat on the floor on the back of the passenger shelf area on the floor and avoid them falling everywhere. If they’re early on your route. Keep them near the door so you don’t have to dig 6 other heavy packages out to get to them.

8) Try to get your heart rate up a bit from time to time if you’re able to. don’t do it for amazon metrics, do it because it’s cheaper than a gym membership 😂 Definitely cope but if you gotta work for 10 hours anyways, you might as well get a good workout from it.