A Vice report shows that some delivery companies contracted with Amazon ask their driver to turn off the retailer’s safety monitoring app in order to get their deliveries done faster.
Drivers are regularly expected to deliver up to 300 packages in a 10-hour shift, a regimen that a 2017 class-action lawsuit against Amazon said left drivers in Washington state little time to take legally mandated breaks. Amazon and delivery service contractors recently settled t...
Still, no one in the industry doubts that the Bezos juggernaut will be a major deployer of unmanned ground robots in the near future. By taking cars off roads, developers of last-mile delivery robots tout environmental and standard of living benefits to their technology. And as companies like...
Documents from Amazon reveal that delivery companies must register less than five “distraction events” per 100 delivery routes to earn a ‘fantastic’ score and be eligible for bonuses.
The drivers are solo proprietors under the contracts signed with the freight companies, and as such do not have a strong negotiating position. A labor union that represents delivery personnel and associated staff demanded an improvement in working conditions. At that point, the freight companies adm...
Amazon drivers are known to be subject to high delivery quotas, perhaps leading to this odd delivery by Brad Anderson March 28, 2023 at 19:41One of the great things about shopping on Amazon is that when they give you a delivery date for an item, it’s almost certain that...
For now, delivery companies are trying to work around the more blatant racism their employees experience. They give drivers routes where they’re less likely to stand out. They report incidents of pulled guns and other intimidation to Amazon. At a training session conducted at an company fac...
Route optimization: Optimal routes for delivery drivers are derived from the data aggregated across customers, drivers, connected vehicles, weather forecasts, traffic monitoring systems, digital and satellite maps.Fleet planning: Amazon?s fleet management system calculates how many drivers are needed at ...
Drivers are regularly expected to deliver up to 300 packages in a 10-hour shift, a regime that a 2017 class-action lawsuit against Amazon said left drivers in Washington state little time to take legally mandated breaks. Amazon and delivery service contractors recently settled that suit for $8.2...
Amazon Flex is different from the regular Amazon delivery drivers. Flex drivers areindependent contractorswho can download an app that will allow them to select different orders they want to deliver, and they need a personal vehicle like a 4-door, mid-sized sedan or larger vehicle, such as a...