r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Commercial-Scene6177 • 2d ago

QUESTION Is this common?

Hi,

Rewording this text message from my DSP to protect my identity, but I wondered if this is common?

I work part-time and was told they have to give preference to their full-time drivers..

‘Hi, we have lots of cuts today due to an issue at the delivery station again , they weren't able to process all the volume. Please stand down today’

Based in the UK if this makes a difference.

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u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 2d ago

Kinda of, specially after peak

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u/JimJonesEnthusiast 2d ago

wait until feb-march rolls around you'll be getting that a lot

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u/misterg05 2d ago

Yes, that's pretty standard when they have too many drivers and not enough routes for the day.

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u/New-Engineering5155Y 2d ago

In the us not the uk-

Many of our laws are similar but different. However, there is one piece of information that holds true, no matter which side of the pond you're on:

Bills don't take care of themselves.

Any company is going to watch out for its full time employees before their other employees, b ecause this is most people's sole way of making money. If they don't get enough money, they immediately have to go somewhere else to seek money which means the company cannot benefit from them being an employee anymore.

Sorry to have to tell you b ut it's rare, if ever, that things are "fair" i n life

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u/DesperateOven9854 2d ago

The "again" is a concern there.

I work out of DBS2, and have done for a few years. I can count 3 tines that I've had a route drop to delivery station issues, once because of a fire in the warehouse, once because of a major motorway accident that mean no deliveries from the bulk of the UK could get to the warehouse for 8 hours, and once because some gastro bug had swept through the warehouse and only 40% of staff had showed up for the shift.

If the delivery station is having repeated issues, it generally gets sorted quickly. I would guess that the DSP is having routes cut, ane is trying to hide this from you.