Amazon Delivery Driving

Amazon Delivery Driving

I want to share this Wealthy Affiliate Community Blog post because it gives an insight into the wonderful world of being an Amazon Delivery Driver

I was invited a few weeks by an associate of mine, to help him get his logistics business up and running, by being a driver and to do some recruiting for him...

Being the kind soul I am and knowing what its like to start a business up, I accepted

However what he neglected to tell me, possibly because I might have said no!!!

was that his logistics business was delivering Amazon Parcels

Anyway I went through his companies onboarding process and training, which went swimmingly well, I provided him with Feedback as he asked for and at at that point all was going well...

No problems

Starting off...

This is where it all started to go a bit, how shall we say peak tong

Because absolutely everything inside of Amazon and I do mean absolutely everything is ...Timed to the milli second!!!

So from the time you place your order to the time you get it, which is the easy bit, when you get your Amazon Delivery which puts a big smile on your face

The middle part, which involves picking and packing, then the delivery part is timed

You are not allowed to move your van at the depot, until the clock hits 10.27 for example, the times were always odd minutes, not half hours, but odd minutes

You reach a staging area, where you collect your crates which contain your packages, if its a nursery route, then you have 120 Parcels. You get 15 Minutes to load your two crates into your van, then get into the van to wait for the order to go

You have to click and unclick your seat belt, other wise you get fined for it!

Then you drive to your round, and start from stop 1. Every thing works through the Amazon deliver app, which is specific to drivers and is optimised for a 9 hour day

Now the App is programmed for a robot to use and it expects drivers to be like robots, you have to drive to within a certain meterage of a house or drop, otherwise you can finish the delivery and you are expected to drive through blockages and to cause blockages, regardless of where you are.There are no exceptions to this

If you fall behind you are constantly bashed verbally till you are ahead and you literally can't even take a Pee break, well you can if you have a bottle and lock your van so you can pee inside he bottle inside the van... This isn't an exaggeration.

So after 4 weeks of this, and having an OSM(On site manager ) with zero people skills, I decided that this helping exercise had to come to a natural end and gave my feedback to my business associate, stating that unless he got rid of his OSM then his business was not going to grow as he had hoped.

So next time you get your amazon order, this will give you a little insight into what happens 'after' you press the 'order now button