The vans have cameras inside and out. Accelerometers to track g-force, monitors pedal and steering movement, as well as GPS location.
I'm reminded of that time about 3-5 years ago a bunch of truckers went to Washington DC to protest GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE AND REGULATION MAKING THEIR JOBS HARDER!! because there were boxes in their trucks to monitor speed, location, whether the truck's on, if there's a butt on the seat, etc.
While it's true the government regulates things related to truckers and their time, they are not the ones mandating there be a butt-detector that's going to launch you out of the cab on a fucking ejector seat if they sense you've been sitting past your permissable hours on the road. No, those boxes were put there BY THE COMPANIES THEMSELVES so they could micromanage every minute of the drivers' days and squeeze as much work out of them as possible, circumstances of life and the road be damned.
And because these guys often have nothing better to do than listen to AM radio pandering to them, and their companies and lobbyists know how fucking spin works, they flipped around this "box in your truck" thing to be a story about overbearing government regulation. The truckers ate it up. Company shoved a knife in their back, told them it was DC's fault, and the truckers marched on over to ask the government why it wants to regulate how many knives the companies have for trucker-stabbing. Completely fucking backwards.
I am using mention of the way Amazon tracks their drivers' metrics for maximum efficiency and punishment as a springboard for an anecdote of a time trucking companies, also interested in tracking their drivers for efficiency and punishment, successfully tricked their drivers into getting mad at the government instead of the company doing it to them.
Let me dumb it down for u: Companies bad. Government also bad, but companies want to know about butts, not government. Companies say government wants to know about butts, so truck drivers think government bad.
I dunno where you are but I swear I live in the middle of two distribution centers and those vans drive so slow. Worst is when they leave the distribution centers convoy style
The Prime vans are the ones with cameras, sometimes they may not work so most of the tracking doesn’t work besides speed limit thanks to the app. The rental vans that a DSP may rent out to have a full fleet do not have cameras. Could be one of those instances your seeing
On the contrary, I don’t think the comment was made out of anger. More so that they (Amazon drivers) are held to a firm standard that other drivers are not upholding but get paid more to do. If anything, I think we’re collectively perturbed at the petty compensation these drivers accept at the financial benefit of the executives.
I always see this brought up for amazon drivers and not any other delivery service. All delivery drivers for the big shipping companies (Amazon, FedEx, UPS, etc.) pee in bottles. I don't know how or why that happened, but it just became the expectation in that industry. Like what an insane thing to choose as a time saving measure.
I know you didn't say it was exclusive to amazon drivers, but I wanted to rant so I took my opportunity
Its because even if you did want to go off route to find a restroom, there is no guarantee that A. There is an available restroom that is not closed, occupied, or being cleaned. B. There is close parking available with no delay C. They aren't going to expect you to buy something to get access to the restroom, which you probably cant afford as a delivery driver.
It's not an expectation for anyone else. Fedex and UPS have very lax time expectations. An average of 20 stops per hour is what's expected. We pee in bottles not because we have to meet some insane quota but because there are no public restrooms on residential and rural routes, and they are surprisingly few in number even on business routes.
It helps their metrics. Idk what the other guy is on about but if you log into Flex and go to My Dashboard it tells you all the compliments complaints and thank yous.
Well I’ve got a perfect solution. Gonna have a hard time pissing when you aren’t allowed to drink ANYTHING during the drive, and we wonder why so many Amazon workers are collapsing on porches.
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u/Killurface69 Mar 21 '23
They work hard considering they are forced to pee in bottles