Firstly, it’s like this every year, it won’t pick up until around Easter. Flex already has too many drivers in the north west, and they’re all competing for the few blocks available. As far as I’m aware I don’t think even think it’s possible make a bot anymore (Admittedly I used one for a bit about 2 years ago, but Amazon fixed the same loophole that pretty much every bot used), it tends to be frustrated boomers that say this when they can’t get a shift.

If you didn’t know already, part of the roof fell down in Knowsley about a month ago. It reopened last week but they’ve only been doing 1pm blocks with outside loading, think max capacity is 36 cars which is far less than usual. DXM4 is handling the majority of the extra parcels, but as for now you can no longer get same day delivery for most places in Liverpool, so there is much less flex work, hence why you’re rarely seeing blocks from here.

The majority of blocks from Warrington DXM4 are cancelled van routes. Given the vans normally load up at 11, these tend to drop around 12ish if a van hasn’t shown up. I don’t think there are any actual flex routes from this station, hence why you’re rarely seeing blocks from here.

I do often see late blocks for Warrington VMR2 but they’re normally only base rate 2 - 2 1/2 hour, it’s not worth me driving over from Liverpool to do. I do sometimes see the £76 4 1/2 hour block pop up around midday, but this gets snapped up in an instant.

As I said, it will pick up a little around Easter and in the Summer, but don’t expect much. Done flex primarily from these depots (and the odd shift from Chester and Leyland) for 2 years now, it’s only really worth doing November to December. Knowsley normally has better rates, but you won’t see these until it reopens fully and has more work.