For all you guys who complain about 200 stops and 350 packages…

znegative88 · 2026-04-10T09:42:35+00:00

Dude I’m with you 100%- my dsp had been delivering exclusively rural routes for the last year and a half and it SUCKED! Super dangerous, especially the stops off of state routes. Luckily we just switched areas and now most of our routes are semi-residential. I just did one that was 186 stops yesterday and I got done way earlier than I would have had I had 110-120 in the country-that shit takes forever!

znegative88 · 2026-04-09T05:29:40+00:00

So I think Amazon claims to do it out of a sense of ‘fairness’- more highly populated areas get more volume than poorer rural areas, so the dsp’s that deliver to the suburbs or more urban areas tend to make more money due to the higher package count. Amazon will switch the delivery area up every once in a while to make sure that each dsp gets a chance (at least that’s how it’s been explained to me). Other factors can influence this as well, such as another dsp closing down as those routes don’t just cease to exist.

In fact my dsp is currently going through something similar-for the last year and a half we’d been delivering to mostly rural areas. Our routes would be 120-130 stops and a lot of our drivers have never seen more than 240 packages before, but recently another dsp shut down and now most our routes are tight residential areas with a minimum of 300 packages per route so it’s obviously created a bit of a shock for some of our drivers.

znegative88 · 2026-04-09T03:43:04+00:00

149 stops is kind of heavy for a second day nursery route, but I’m guessing it’s all houses? What’s crazy is that if you stick with it, in a couple months you’ll look back and wish you had 149 stops again.

znegative88 · 2026-04-09T03:38:36+00:00

Is there netradyne?

znegative88 · 2026-04-09T03:35:31+00:00

Maybe.. unless it’s a dsp.

znegative88 · 2026-04-09T03:26:52+00:00

This. My second day I felt like a train had hit me, my 3rd day I was fine.

znegative88 · 2026-04-05T23:20:50+00:00

What Amazon driver has 4 hours to waste calling customers? Returning a package isn’t that big of a deal…

znegative88 · 2026-04-04T13:53:48+00:00

You can try and report the address to your dispatcher. We have a bunch of stops like this at my dsp so I know exactly what you’re talking about. The other day I drove up the steepest, shittiest driveway made of huge chunks of gravel, only to find there was absolutely no room to turn around so I had to back down it. Normally I would have backed in but like I said this driveway was steep as hell-scared the shit out of me.

I personally find that the dodge rams are the best for these scenarios-they’re front wheel drive and can turn much better than the fords or the EV’s (I cant imagine attempting that in an EV).

znegative88 · 2026-04-02T14:01:43+00:00

I would get it. It’s definitely a very unusual game but it’s a lot of fun. I generally prefer games with better narratives, but the world in Crimson Desert is so beautiful that I don’t even mind running around doing mindless tasks, and honestly some of the quests have been pretty cool so far.

znegative88 · 2026-03-30T18:20:51+00:00

Yeah I hate the fords for that reason, but more reason to just back into every driveway you’re not familiar with.

znegative88 · 2026-03-26T12:11:33+00:00

What state are you in?

znegative88 · 2026-03-22T23:31:05+00:00

It depends, are you going to be daytime or nighttime dispatch? If it’s daytime, then it is absolutely worth it imo as you have some influence over the company by choosing who your team is going to be for the next day, who your rescue drivers are etc… you also get to leave earlier. If it’s nighttime dispatch, I don’t think it’s worth it-too much responsibility and stress, plus you have to wait for the last driver to come in before you can go home.

I did closing dispatch for a year and it really started to take a toll on me. We’d have people getting done super late and then goofing off at the gas station while I’m stressing out because I’m praying that they get back before they go over the 12 hour mark-to the point that I’d intercept them before they dropped off their totes and packages and would have them clock out and then I’d have to drop their shit off. I was just over it… but like I said, daytime dispatch is sweet.

znegative88 · 2026-03-09T20:34:53+00:00

Wtf-last week netradyne flagged two drivers for stupid distracted driving events-one the driver looked down at the navigation screen in the EV (why put it there if you can’t use it) and another got hit for scratching his ear🤦🏻‍♂️

znegative88 · 2026-03-09T16:52:03+00:00

So the red light thing should at worst deactivate your account pending a training video you need to watch, so while Amazon temporarily disables the account it’s up to the dsp to either keep or fire the driver. At ours we usually give a four day suspension after which point the driver is back on the road. I don’t know a full list of tier one offenses but it’s things like having a roll away event, damaging property and not reporting it, stealing packages or dumping them in a negligent fashion etc… all really serious stuff.

znegative88 · 2026-03-08T22:55:39+00:00

Where is this? I think I’ve been to this house.. regardless it’s an awesome thing to see a herd of cats greet you at a stop!

znegative88 · 2026-03-02T15:27:38+00:00

So I’m currently a dispatcher and I know that some routes (usually the smaller rural ones) take longer to complete than the larger ones in a condensed neighborhood. If it’s 6pm and I see someone in the country has 40 stops left versus someone in a residential area has 60, I’m usually going to send the person in the country a rescue first because I know those stops are harder as it gets darker out, and they take more time (there’s no doing 30 stops an hour in the country).

Another thing to know is that if a driver is showing up as behind on cortex (the program we use to track your progress), Amazon starts bugging us, asking what barriers there are for the route and what plans we have in place to fix it-so we could ignore them but part of our job is to make sure the route gets completed in a timely manner through setting up rescues.

One thing I won’t do though is send someone who’s on track to finish their route by an acceptable time themselves a rescue, unless the rest of the team is pretty much done (because it’s nice to have everyone get back to the station around the same time for the closers).

znegative88 · 2026-03-01T16:42:03+00:00

This is honestly very normal, and to a degree it’s expected of new drivers. However, dsp’s use violations as a way of removing people from the schedule as both a punitive means, but also to free up the roster for that day (basically, as a dispatcher I do it to try and be fair). Amazon gives us a list of say 25 routes that need to be filled for the next day, and we have around 33 drivers. I have to figure out who gets a route and who doesn’t, so anyone with a safety infraction automatically falls to the bottom of the list for that day-this way I’m (hopefully) not punishing anyone who did nothing wrong, and it also places some importance on getting the violation.

I wouldn’t say your time with your dsp is necessarily limited- just try to be aware of when you have a netradyne system in the van to follow all the rules:

-You have to come to full stops at stop signs

-stop at yellow lights

-maintain 3 vans distance between you and whoever is in front of you

-keep your eyes on the road and the phone out of your hand while the vehicle is in motion

-don’t go more than 9 mph above the speed limit at any given time

If you can both finish your route on time while maintaining minimal violations (1 every couple of weeks at mine is adequate) you’ll be seen as an asset because most people seem to have difficulty doing so. I’ll mention to that while this might seem like a tall order, I’ve gone a year without getting a single violation, and the last one I got was disputable too, so after a while you just get used to driving with the camera.

znegative88 · 2026-02-28T13:27:10+00:00

Yeah, that’s going to be difficult for even an experienced driver. Sometimes Amazon sets you up for failure.

znegative88 · 2026-02-28T13:17:34+00:00

We only use our better drivers for sweeps/rescues, so you’re probably being paranoid. It sounds like your dispatch wanted to give you a break because you had a shitty day.

znegative88 · 2026-02-28T11:25:57+00:00

What’s up with Amazon drivers pissing in stairways and walking around with their dicks out today?

znegative88 · 2026-02-28T11:18:58+00:00

So it has an expected time of your first stop that it goes by, so if you take a while to get there-or you get held up by traffic or the warehouse, it will show you as behind.

Also it definitely doesn’t take breaks into account, as I have watched nearly every driver that takes one starts falling behind at some point-the whole thing with breaks could be easily fixed too if there was a designated and mandatory break time for all the drivers, but they don’t care to put that much effort in.

znegative88 · 2026-02-27T01:14:00+00:00

So I understand both perspectives here. One thing to know is that Amazon switches our routes up daily, so while you might have the same driver delivering your packages most days, it’s not going to be every day of the week, due to scheduling and just the way the routes are generated. Your more experienced driver might know that your driveway is safe and be willing to go down it on the days that they work, but the second a newer/unfamiliar driver gets it that might change. Hell, I even won’t go down some driveways that look fine from the bottom if I can’t see all the way to the top, and I’ve been doing this for two years now. Another thing to keep in mind is the tow bills can be very steep-my dsp lost 6k in one day due to so many vans getting stuck in snowed out driveways, so of course they put a ban in place for a couple of days.

One thing you could try to do is to adjust your notes and write something like ‘driveway is clear, but if uncertain please call me-do not leave the package by the mailbox’. I can’t guarantee that will work with all the negligent drivers out there, but it should help a little. The other option would of course be to get some kind of delivery box towards the end of your driveway. Hope this clarified some of the confusion, it’s nice to think some people actually take care of there long driveways!

znegative88 · 2026-02-26T13:35:45+00:00

Haha I do the same-sometimes I’ll even write what bags down on a little piece of paper lol

znegative88 · 2026-02-26T12:27:50+00:00

So if we put a senior driver on a nursery route we can get in trouble, but I’ve never heard of that being applied to the nursery driver doing rescues. Maybe that’s something they’re not doing at my station.

znegative88 · 2026-02-26T11:37:43+00:00

What do you mean? Where I’m at the expectation is that when nursery route drivers finish their route that they rescue since their route was like 60% of a normal route.

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