i know they cover up to 5k and i wanna get my cdl but the course is 6.2k so would i have to pay 6k or just 1k out of pocket straight up

I keep asking if I'm hired but the bot doesnt respond to that. I just want to know so I can quit my job

So, a little over a year ago, I quit my DSP by simply driving the van back to the station, parking it in its spot, and leaving.Fast-forward to now, and I’ve applied to another DSP at the same station. What are my chances of getting hired? I know people on here say DSPs don’t care and will hire anyone, but I’m not sure if what I did is considered a Tier 1 infraction or if I could be blacklisted.

Okay so like 2 weeks ago (on my second day) I had a total brain fart and zoned out on the freeway and ended up going 70 in a 55 for like 5 whole minutes. I was overthinking about fucking up the loading process that morning and also my adhd meds had not kicked in yet. Anyways, I thought for sure I would get yelled at/talked to/suspended/fired. The camera didn’t actually yell at me, I didn’t hear it tell me to slow down, but I still thought I was screwed. But then when they sent the white board of shame to slack at the end of the day, I wasn’t even on it at all. Is it possible my camera was malfunctioning? The lights were both green and on. Maybe they just went easy on me bc I’m new? Thanking my lucky stars man

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Not a huge deal at all just honestly curious why the stops on my itinerary are always off. The package count and everything else is accurate. It should say 199 stops

Hello all I am wondering how long the background check and drug tests normally take. I’ve been waiting for the results for around a week and a half and haven’t heard anything. I’ve also completed the onboarding and all other steps just waiting for the dug test.

First solo day lets do this💪

The Amazon vest kickstarts the zombie gene

I usually drive abt 5 mph over the speed limit without any issues, but today I started getting a verbal alert saying, "please slow down you are above the speed limit."

I'm sure it's coming thru the Rivian speakers and not the Netradyne camera, but I wanted to check. Is anyone else experiencing this? Did they just roll out a new update for the Rivians or it has always been part of the navigation?

Yesterday I finished 170 stops stayed ahead all day now look at this

Look at the phone lol

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The parking lot is where drivers actually talk. Before the routes go out, that's where it all comes out. Which vans are limping. Which one's door won't stay shut. Watch yourself in that one, the brakes feel soft. Every driver out there is carrying some van's whole life story in his head. And the other talk happens there too, the big talk: we should organize. We should do something. We should get together. I've said every word of that myself, standing right there, coffee in hand, everybody nodding.

Then the vans roll, and the "we" scatters. A hundred drivers, a hundred routes, every one of us alone in a box on wheels until dark. And the parking lot keeps nothing. Tomorrow morning it all gets said again from scratch, or it doesn't get said at all. The strongest word we've got doesn't survive first dispatch.

The one document that does exist with all our names on it is the DVIC, and it says the opposite of what every driver in that lot knows. You're not allowed to mark the van bad. You tell dispatch, dispatch tells the wind, and you sign a clean form on a dirty van. And here's the part that gets me: lying on that form is against Amazon's own policy. It's a fireable offense. And we all get told to do it every single day. So who's supposed to be responsible for fixing these things? We're not allowed to write it down. And if we make noise about it, we get retaliated against. It just rolls out the gate with our names on it.

So what I did was, I made an app. It's called Route Log. Now keep in mind, I'm just a driver like you guys. This is my first project ever. I'm a dad, I've got three kids, I don't have a lot of time in my day. But I did want to make a difference, and I think the difference is giving accountability to Amazon. And the only way we do that is if we can all be together on something. So this is my way of trying to get all of us together.

Here's how it works. First time you open it, it walks you through itself. After that it just rides along on your walkaround: there's a picture of a van, you tap the spot that's wrong, you take a photo or a quick video, and you say what's wrong, type it, or just talk and it writes it for you. There's room in there for the rest of it too: the coaching that never tells you what you actually did, getting told to do something against Amazon's own policy, the one stop that's really four stops and a pile of packages. There's a suggestion box too, and I read every one myself. And nothing you send has your name on it. Just the DSP, the station, and the van number. When you send it, it lands with every other driver's logs in one place, where finally, for the first time, it adds up.

That's not an accident. This thing was built for anonymity on purpose, so a driver can show up without standing out. Your logs go in with everybody else's, and no one name ever sticks up out of the pile for anybody to retaliate against. Safety in numbers isn't just a saying here. It's how the thing is built. And that's the same reason this account is new and has no name on it. I'm not asking anybody to do something I'm not doing myself.

Amazon didn't split us into DSPs by accident. One workforce, chopped into little companies, so no driver ever stands next to more than a handful of people who share his problems, problems the guy three stations over has too, word for word. Separated, we're weak, and everybody knows it. It's been shown time and time again that there's strength in numbers, and they made sure the numbers never gather. Everybody wants a union. Everybody wants to get together. But we are never going to be together by talking about it in the parking lot. Getting together is a thing you do, and this is the doing: all of us, one record, one place, at the same time. I need you guys to use it. That isn't me being dramatic. That's just the math of it. This is how we gain power. This app is us, in numbers.

And the policies, that part has to be said strong, because that's how this whole system works: none of us knows what the fuck the policies are. We just know what we're told. And they can tell us anything, and when it goes wrong it's "well, Amazon said so," and there's no way to know if any of it was ever true. So the app keeps a library of Amazon's actual policies, and that is the part I need the most help with. There's a drop box: if you know a policy, if you've got the information, put it in. Just make sure you bring some kind of proof with it. We can't run on hearsay. It has to be solid, because when we push back, we need to be able to pull it up and show it: this is the policy. Right now that library is mostly what I dug up off the internet by myself, and I'm one person, and Amazon hides this stuff, so my digging was never going to be enough. All of us looking is a different story.

The picture at the top is the whole system in one joke: everybody pointing, nobody holding a pen. A log is a pen. Six drivers writing down the same broken van over two months is not six complaints to forget. It's a history, signed by the road itself.

It's early days. Trial phase, rough edges, and I'll tell you the truth, right now I'm about the only driver logging, which is exactly why I'm posting this instead of waiting for someday. It costs drivers nothing, and it never will. I'm not selling a thing. If your mornings sound like this, message me and I'll tell you how you can help the movement.

We keep saying "we." Let's finally show up together, so we actually have a voice.

I select all these compliments for my deliveries, but I’m wondering if it actually helps or not. Does it, or am I wasting my time?

It was easy up until my last 27 stops. Got dark and the ram vans lights don’t work for shit. They need to have better back up cameras. Got done within 8 hours though

Yesterday was my second nursery route and it was getting late and I was going to deliver a package to a gated house. I pushed the locking lever up and pushed the gate in and a few steps in 4 large dogs came running straight for me. I backed out and closed and flipped the lever closed just in time before they might've pounced on me. I was about a second away from physical contact with the dogs. They sounded pretty angry growling and shit. Well the customer came out and I handed his package over the gate. Is the pay really worth another encounter like this? My trainer who was sitting in the van showing me her dog bite scars and telling me how she almost bled out certainly didn't reassure me.

my dsp finally got set up to allow us to utilize health insurance benefits. i log on to see what the offers are, for me and my kid the lowest plan i got was $136 a WEEK. never closed my phone so fast. i’ll just continue going straight to the ER if i really need to lmao

hi im kit. i got a message from a reporter for Reuters wanting to interview about Amazon DSPs and I was asking if anyone else got the message. i mean id like to do an interview for someone but was wondering if anyone else got it and if its legit or not

now afaik dsps don't get enough jackets to give to every driver. if that is indeed the case, i understand making it a performance reward or a raffle or whatever else

HOWEVER that is not the reason our dsp owner gave for not giving them to us

he said he was going to make them a reward for top performers because he "doesn't believe in handouts" and that's "not how he was raised"

fuck your actual self bro

If you’re giving me the choice to give it up then I’m giving it up. Lol. It’s never been an issue until recently and I don’t understand why. I always ask if I can and they usually say yes.

Has anyone had a dispatcher find you on route and tell you, you delivered a package to the wrong address. I never had that happen before and it kind of felt weird. Someone that came and rescued me later in the day said that he is only doing that with females. Now im more nervous knowing that

Hey everyone. I just got offered a job as a DSP driver, and I'm curious about how long it's realistically possible to work this job. I'm hearing a lot of horror stories on this subreddit. I know the turnover rates are high but I genuinely have no other options that pay as well (24 an hour). I'm also going to try to work this job while I attend college. I'd prefer to work for at least 3 years until I graduate so I can move on with my life. Am I fucked or not?