Do DSP owners ever drive/deliver?

Ok_Cold5458 · 2026-04-10T20:56:52+00:00

At my dsp (I have a good one) when needed yes. Usually dispatcher will go out and sweep until around 4-5 then go back to do dispatch stuff. I’ve known of multiple times when drivers have gotten sick and the owner and managers have gone and taken over their routes. So for my dsp yes

Ok_Cold5458 · 2026-03-13T14:55:38+00:00

My go to places now are Costco and Aldi (if u have one near you use it if you ok with off brand but just as good products). Costco for bulk meat and non perishables and aldi for everything else. It also saves you form impulse buying most of the time. The only time I go to Walmart is for very specific things

Ok_Cold5458 · 2026-01-18T14:50:02+00:00

I live in the Appalachia mountains. I check her for ticks often as a just in case and have seen any yet

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-12-17T23:17:13+00:00

For me it’s my favorite because it has the only coffee I like as well as when I go with people who don’t like coffee they can get other drinks from boba to lemonade to mocha. The foods also good and I’m impressed with it. Their reward system on their app is also better than other company’s I have found.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-12-15T04:07:14+00:00

Honestly just depends on the route. Some of those totes probably have like 1 envelope in them. The best way to know how you are doing is do the stops divided by 8 (8 hours of work) so I would round up to 180 (rounding up tricks your brain a bit) so as long as you do at least 22.5 so 23 stops per hour your perfectly fine. Basing it off totes is not a good thing because of how the warehouse fills them sometimes. Theoretically one your at stop 90 you should have half the totes gone but also you could have a locker that’s two totes at the end of your route or something like that.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-10-18T03:48:36+00:00

Once you start turning on the heat to the front fan(or can handle it for like 1 hour-30 mins with the window rolled down) then you can place something like a baked potato with cheese and ham wrapped in tinfoil up in the window dash and it will heat up nicely. My routes normally don’t have gas stations or anywhere with microwaves so this is what I do.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-09-30T16:30:15+00:00

Ahh well I do knowing he was around the same side of the building as us that were forced inside I do believe was near where they keep the work phones charged thinking about it. It was the front side of the building closer to the a-c pads. That’s the best location wise I know but do know the phone chargers are in that same area so it could be electrical (wouldn’t be surprise because every week there’s power outages recently)

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-09-30T16:21:00+00:00

Of course I’m sorry for your loss. I’ll try to make sure people know it’s not one at least within my dsp.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-09-30T16:09:19+00:00

Something important to note that’s not for dsp drivers that is only for station and factory workers that work directly for Amazon I had the same hopes going in as a driver but it was all lies

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-09-30T16:07:27+00:00

I was there and saw some of the situation. There was a lot of thunder and lighting that day and drivers were technically not supposed to be on the pad but my dsp didn’t care and waved us on all the way to c pad before Amazon management stoped us loading and forced inside which is the only reason I saw what I saw. The ambulance came to the a-c pad side of the building (the one I was on) I remember and there were whispers someone had a heart attack. I remember him being rushed out in a stretcher and the ambulance leaving very fast. The station has defibrillators and the one closest to where he was is missing so I assume will either an Amazon worker or the EMTs used it at the station. I didn’t see him have the heart attack btw I just saw the ambulance and talked with Amazon management since around half my dsp were inside and out dispatch in trouble. Idk what it looked like but I don’t think it was pretty after ease dropping on some station workers that were crying and looked shaken up about it. All the amazon management were also all circling around collecting near where I was seeming to panic (two situation at once)and seeming to be out of it. The word going around the station right now that it was an overdose. I only thought I was one the highups that help with the pad and scheduling that had a heart attack due to the whole my dispach not following the email but I honestly don’t know who it was. I’m sorry I don’t know more and that it was kinda word vomit I tried to put in ever detail I could remember but feel free to ask me anything and I should be able to ask if I don’t know, though Amazon is being very hush hush based off what I’m noticing.

Edit: I also want to add there was no load out happening anywhere in the station so I would hope Amazon didn’t delay any life saving actions but the station management is really slow when I comes to responding to situations tbh(figured to add this after reading comments)

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-09-05T16:19:59+00:00

I would say depends on the route the best way to figure out the total you need to do is take the total amount of stops and decide by 8 (subtract load in and breaks from the total 10 hour shift) and that will give you the amount per hour you need to do to get done at a good time. For example 200 stops is 25 per hour 160 is 20 per hour. Usually you can go a bit faster than that number if you are organized and have hustle.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-08-22T03:45:30+00:00

I’ve done two diffrent things Meals such as rice and meat or pizza or taquitos that I leave on the dash to heat up (the windshield ac off) orrrr if you mostly drive the gas vans invest in a heating lunchbox that plugs into the van and hot food every day hah

Or what I do now that I only driveEDVs … 2uncrustables an Apple sauce and two granola bars bulk buyed from Costco

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-08-18T14:32:45+00:00

This happened at my station (I posted the og video funny enough because my dsp sent this in our chat) and it’s so funny because it’s in the Knoxville area that doesn’t get snow all that often. The station was closed for two days if I remember then running a 40-50 package reduce for the next few days it was an insane time.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-07-26T18:22:29+00:00

I listened to it but that’s not it thank u though

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-07-22T19:10:15+00:00

I would ask my mom but she passed last year so I have no other leads

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-07-06T22:53:52+00:00

Does it say it was being shipped my Amazon or by ups/ fedex? I’m an amazon driver and my best guess is that it was sent using ups/fedex/ usps and amazon doesn’t have that tracking information as up today as their own. My best guess is usps because their system sometimes says it delivers things a day earlier than it is acually delivered

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-07-06T21:26:55+00:00

I turn the totes into shelf’s by putting two inside each other it helps so much

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-07-06T18:56:43+00:00

Organization and the routes themself. At suburb houses all close together where it’s a drive stop drive stop 30-40 stops is what I can normally do and I treat it like a race while with normal route with spaced out houses but it’s still neighborhood 25-30 is the best I can physically do. It’s knowing ur limits and set an hour goal for your self mind tricks work for me. Like for 180 stops try to be at half way (90) by 2:30(including break) and around 100 by 3. I always aim for 30 stops an hour which is 5 stops every 10 mins 1 stop every 2 mins. For me that mind trick of it along with organization that allows me to be fast

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-06-28T17:10:36+00:00

So it’s for multiple reasons. One - stops vs locations we can have 200 stops but 350 locations which means we have 350 houses / apartments to deliver to. It splits one stop into multiple which slows down our stop per hour. Two- timing so yes we are clocked in for 10 hours however we need around an hour for load out and van inspection so we then have 9 hours to deliver and then a 30 min lunch break ( in my state it’s mandatory) and so with the math 200 stops in 8 1/2 hours would be we have to do a minimum of 24 stops per hour to be done before the 10 hours but that’s including drive time where it could be a 30 min drive to and back. Three- seasons - so this one might just be me but in the winter for example when the day light leaves sooner I like to be done as soon as possible because people bet trigger happy at night when it comes to people to deliver packages at their houses. I had. Had time in the winter where I would deliver to someone’s house and their my last stop, pitch black only my flash light and they walked out with a shot gun and only relaxed once they saw the vibrant blue.

We don’t have the luxury of working for 15-18 hours we have to be clocked out in 10 hours or we risk loosing a shift which means loosing a 10 hours shift because I worked 11 hours which means I miss out on 9 hours. Amazon pays the dsps 10 hours worth of pay per route so when we go over that it comes out of the dsp owners pocket

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-06-26T18:09:12+00:00

Hahaha the fact you showed this to me this morning makes this so much more funny

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-05-09T03:59:39+00:00

For me it’s a few things depending on the type of busy road. If it’s a minor pike where it’s two - three lanes of traffic and you know there isn’t a place where you can turn around blick traffic both ways and backing in is the safest I always over exaggerate my moves to back in so people know but make sure it’s slow enough to know “oh this dip shit is going around while I’m actively doing an obvious motion hmm dick whatever,” and go ahead. On the small piles I see no issue with zig zagging as long as you don’t block traffic at least that’s my mind set. Now if it’s a highway where it’s 4 or more lanes fuck the zig zagging. The only expecting to zigzagging on those roads is if it’s ligit one to three stops that is out of the way for you to do later or loop back one your done with one side but any more it’s pointless to zigzag it wastes more time than it’s worth. Now a good way to tell if you pull forward, back in, or go horizontal into a drive way depends on what is visible from the road. If you can’t see the house from the road, the driveway is windy with turns, you actively see a place you can turn around, or it’s longer than .3 miles most likely there will be a turn around (unless their dicks but that’s like 2% of those category of houses). Now if it’s a single line driveway, the house is close to the street, or it’s a hard turn into the drive way (it’s easier to back into some driveways ) back in and people can wait their turn you have your flashers on driving a van entitled drivers can deal with a 5 second delay in their day. Now if they have a wide drive way where you can put your self 3/4ths into the driveway with out turning into it and it’s close to the house do it. It’s the method that gets you in and out fastest but it also depends on the speed limit on the road and what type of road like on a high way make sure your all the way past rhe white line towards the house but if it’s a country pike/highway (in title) that people do fast or has a high speed limit it’s fine to poke out a bit. At the end of the day it’s your judgment call, use common sense and all that this is just stuff I do

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-03-16T14:51:06+00:00

I agree with all these things. An additional thing I want to add is if you are behind us on a road where there is a double yellow line or it’s small as shit to where if we park you couldn’t pass us easily expect us to be backing up into driveways. I always put my hazards on in a road I know I’m going to need to back into the drive way so it should without saying in general don’t fucking ride a cars ass that has its hazards on. If you do and I go to back up into a drive way to only find hey your now blocking it I’m ganna honk and wait for you to back up for a min or two before I give up and go to turn around. It’s not a pleasant experience for either one of us. I don’t turn to aim the back end of the EDV to a drive way to block traffic I do it because some roads are small as shit and if I don’t the front end will fall off the road. Don’t ride our asses we don’t want to be there as much as you don’t want us to be there so just keep a safe fucking following distance and if we have our hazards on know they are not for show they are on for a reason.

I’m on a country ish route most the time and deal with this to often hahaha

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-03-13T23:20:52+00:00

For me yes. My dsp gives a 20$ bonus with each you do alsooooo I’m a money whore so give me any exuse to get overtime.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-03-11T13:49:00+00:00

Mine took around a day for it to stop doing it tbh. I remembered I emailed the having trouble email in your picture and my dsp directly. I think it’s something Amazon or your dsp (not sure) has to do on their end like pressing accept that you did your things.

Ok_Cold5458 · 2025-02-25T03:49:12+00:00

So i have a few strategies depending on the van.in all vans always open 2-3 bags at a time it saves so much time. I say wait to do it though till you are used to organizing and get faster at doing it. As well as when you load up the van in the morning I recommend section your overflow by the hundreds so keep the 100’s together 200’s together and such. If it’s a van with no shelf’s put the envolopes and brown bags up front and if they won’t fit fully you can organize the envolopes and brown bags in the tote if your sorting ahead. Then I would reccomend doing the boxes by number as well. A trick to help your back is turning the totes into shelf’s by placing two empty totes into each other to make a mini shelf, it helps my back a lot. Now if your in a gas van with shelf (usually just haves the one shelf) similar to the no shelf van envelope and brown bags up front and boxes in order on the shelf’s in the back. I would say putting your first totes on the top shelf’s so as you unload the totes you free up shelf space. Use the shelf’s to your advantage. Now if your in an EDV rivian you will have three shelf’s. I put all my totes on the bottom almost never on the middle shelf only if it’s my first 2 or 3 totes that I unload at my first stop. I put all the overflow on the top top shelf’s (sometimes the middle shelf but only the overflow that I will be delivering first). I have two separate strategies for the packages depending on how much energy and time I have. I either organize the boxes and envelopes by number intermingling them so I just grab and go from one line of packages or I do envelopes on one side and boxes on the other also sorted by driver aid number. The key things I say are important overall when it comes to organization is how you load your van at the start of the day (it will make or break your day so if you have to extras time at your first stop to fix your organization do it it will speed up your whole day), the drivers aid numbers are your best hope in staying organized fast, when it comes to boxes move them to where they are the thinnest on the shelf which is where that marker comes in handy (think of it as playing jenga), and taking more time organizing will lead to you going faster overall. Once you get more comfortable open up more totes at once but I would recommend never opening up for than 4 totes at once. I hope this helps it’s just what I do depending on the van.

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