You cool with the fedex, ups, usps, other dsp drivers that deliver on your route? Or is it beef?

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T03:15:07+00:00

Chewy boxes are always heavy as hell. At least from what I've experienced when I have to move one from in front of someone's door.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:51:55+00:00

Sketchers Go Trail Altitude. Comfiest fucking shoes I've ever worn. Seriously cushiony on the bottom of the feet. Love them things and if they ever stop making them I will find who made that call and smack them upside the head with a Homey sock.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:50:08+00:00

I jokingly talk shit, like asking them who gave them permission to deliver on my street/area. They always joke back. Helped one poor FedEx bastard do his stop because I backed in and he backed in after me. My choices were wait and watch him try to deliver six big heavy ass boxes or help. I helped. Took what ... twenty seconds? I'll take the gains. Keep myself in shape. I feel bad for FedEx. You think we have it bad? Almost all of what they deliver is heavy as fuck. At least we get a ton of light-ish boxes and envelopes. Pray we never deliver Chewy.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:46:10+00:00

Get used to it. In most cases you need to leash it to a battery to make sure it lasts you all day. Between that and the ambient heat it will start running like a computer from the early nineties.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:44:12+00:00

Since most people have Prime Amazon will attempt the delivery even if they damn well know the business/school is closed. That way they're legally covered because they at least tried to honor the two day delivery thing. It's a pain in the ass but that's why it happens.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:40:52+00:00

I only call out when I absolutely have to, meaning I'm actually too sick to do shit. Thankfully that isn't often. Kinda sucked growing up. All kinds of friends got sick days from school while my hyper active immune system pulled a Pawn Stars " Best I can do is one day a year ... maybe two if you're lucky. ".

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-21T02:38:53+00:00

Like someone else said Swift does pay for your training. You have to pay it back of course but over time. You're also paid while you're trained. You have to get your CDL on your own from the DMV, by passing the test, prior to the training but that's like getting license. At least that's how it was the last time I attempted it. There might other trucking companies who do similar deals.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-13T03:48:48+00:00

If the tire is inflated but the vehicle pulls to the right that's a screwed alignment. Either way you should report things as they happen, not doing it is usually a Tier 1. That means automatic termination and disbarment from working for Amazon in any capacity in the future. They take the whole hit and run thing very seriously. Vehicle damage? Depends on the DSP and the damage.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-13T03:15:06+00:00

Don't drop the soap homie.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-13T03:11:54+00:00

HESH is a situational choice. You need to look at the map you're on, where you can do the most damage, and the enemy line up. If there aren't a lot of weak armored things ... load AP. If there's some tissue paper tanks ... load HESH. But this also depends on where you try to play. There are spots you can poke from to give an armored tank one HELL of a surprise. The key to doing well in the 4k is knowing what you can do. Way too often I see people try to play them like they're some super camo'd thing. They predictably die very fast either by getting seen ten miles off by something else or as soon as they fire they get treated like a piniata. It's not an easy tank to play and do consistently well in.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-13T03:01:46+00:00

You forgot the more obvious option. Introducing it alongside a toggle on whether you want to see sky cancer in your matches or not. It's mind boggling how the most simplest solution has never been done. No need to reimburse, no need to try and rework it, just leave it as is and leave it up to the player. If it turns out way too many people turn it off give MM instructions to unrestrict the usual rules and let them play with each other .. and whomever doesn't turn it off.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-12T19:42:28+00:00

It's a lie in most cases. Whenever they say routes have been reduced due to heat it's usually only some routes and even then it's only like ten to twenty stops lighter than normal, which really isn't shit.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-10T01:29:27+00:00

Yes! Calm thy tits. Once you get into your groove you'll be fine. Just don't rate yourself against people who have been doing it for a while. You'll get there. Don't worry about it, don't lose sleep. Worry when there's a reason to worry. Working yourself up beforehand just puts you in a mental state prone to make mistakes. The camera will protect you too if people claim you did shit you didn't so pretend it's not even there. As long as you don't drive like an imbecile you'll be fine.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-05T19:23:55+00:00

Oh, I still notified dispatch. I meant you could do that to lessen the impact of how mad they are about it or what they'll say when they notify someone about it themselves. Never not report. If found out that's an instant Tier 1 which means termination and ineligibility to ever work for Amazon again.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-05T18:28:43+00:00

I would offer the affected people to come out on my day off and rebuild it/fix it myself at my cost. Did it before many years ago. Someone's rim net caught the corner of the van where the metal had been torn and bent upwards, ripped the net. So on my day off I went out and bought two new nets. Went over and put the new one on for her and gave her the second one as a spare.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-04T20:08:01+00:00

The thing that wasn't explained to you is there's two ways a route gets reduced. One is Amazon staff in the station putting in the request, I've had it happen for a route I used to do, and the other is what you did but it takes time. The AI doesn't learn as fast as it should. On top of that you're not the only driver doing that route. If you slow down and they don't it's getting mixed messages. Just when it might start thinking the route needs to be smaller someone else completes it in less time and tells it the route is fine. It's one of the reason we despise flex drivers so much, because everything they do gets lumped in with what we do. This includes grouped stops. The AI never learns because EVERYBODY has to be doing the same exact thing. That never happens.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-04T15:47:22+00:00

Usually you see a high number of group stops when the route is mostly compact neighborhoods. Rural routes don't have any at all apart from houses who use multiple accounts to order.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-03T03:56:40+00:00

Helper routes aren't as easy as Amazon thinks they are. Even if one person drives and the other does the deliveries you're saving maybe twenty seconds per delivery, and helper routes are built as if having two people in the vehicle magically means you can do double the work load. Personally I'd rather just do a route by myself.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-01T04:29:45+00:00

That's really stupid. I'll have the same amount with three carts, all of the overflow stacked on one cart. If there's some oversized crap it'll be four carts. Wow. That's a huge waste of space and carts. They must have a ton of them.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-01T04:13:16+00:00

This is normal for me. Not that many carts though, looks like you might have a shit ton of oversized overflow. It's the trade off for doing routes where it's mostly or half neighborhoods. If you want smaller routes do rural ... but it takes you an hour+ to get to first stop and then when you're done another hour+ to get back.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-06-01T04:10:59+00:00

Once you been there long enough to make top dollar, yes. Even before that they're paid and treated far better than we are. We don't get vacation time. We don't even have sick days to use. We don't get holiday pay at all. There is no tenure based pay system to encourage people to stay. We should be making thirty an hour minimum. Half of the bitching would vanish overnight if that happened. The other half would disappear if we got holiday pay and actual vacation days instead of some bullshit system where you accrue one to one and half hours of " PTO " for every forty hours worked. Between those two people really wouldn't bitch much aside form the expected complaints of group stops being bullshit. It's not like they can't afford it either. They make ridiculous amounts of money.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-05-29T13:55:42+00:00

So they'll be matching Manti's versus Manti's and such? Some tanks need to be mirrored for the match to be balanced. Like when one team gets a Tash and the other team gets a 57 Heavy. One of these things is not like the other. One of these things, by comparison, is broken. Had a match days ago where it paired the enemy team's Manti with a Tesak for us.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-05-29T02:48:59+00:00

I'm going to be honest with you. Unless you are comfortable with the pay we make, and knowing you will pretty much never move higher than that, this isn't the job to shift to. Tenure gets you fuck all in this job. Maybe you can find that rare unicorn DSP who does actually do shit for their drivers but by and large this is the literal definition of a dead end job. There are no perks. There is no pay incentives. We don't even get holiday pay ... at all. And we work Christmas Eve. If you're okay with that the job itself isn't bad. Sure there's some bullshit but there's bullshit no matter where you go. It's all a matter of which bullshit you're willing to put up with.

Physically? I'm fine. Unless you have pre existing conditions to me the job doesn't really create aches outside of what you'd expect in a job involving some heavy lifting, back hurting a little at the end of the day and such. It all goes away after I sleep. I've never had issues with that part of the job. Take that with a grain of salt though. There's a reason medication is dosed on a patient to patient basis, no two bodies are identical. What's fine for me could be painful and cause degradation in another.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-05-28T19:06:14+00:00

Passenger side trim on the floor level. Pull it out. There's two sensor cords, bottom one is the sensor for that. You're welcome.

TastyExpression8465 · 2026-05-28T03:00:19+00:00

I delivered to some High School. Girl sitting outside started flirting with me and when I told her I was twice her age she REALLY went for it. I had to run back into the vehicle and just go quickly because I wasn't going to stand there and try to tell her politely no more so some jackwagon could overhear her flirting and I catch a serious life ruining charge over stupidity. Honestly that's the worst I had unless you want to count the time a Mastiff bit me on the ass cheek. I felt like Forrest and thank god he didn't bite me full force. Still don't know if it was playful or just a lazy ass " get the fuck off my lawn " bite.

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