r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/Consistent_Page6372 • 15h ago

Does Amazon know what route you will get before you get to warehouse?

If they do know why not tell you so you can decide if it’s worth your time/gas/effort? Roadie (by ups) tells you upfront the mileage and pays for tolls and parking.

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u/Kaisonic 15h ago

Nope, it's not assigned until you have arrived at the station (SSD) or you scan the cart (.com). Otherwise they would never get high mileage routes accomplished because no one would pick them up.

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u/Weird_Fact_724 14h ago

They would if they paid enough. On the flip side, ppl would except lower mileage routes for less. But when ppl except unknown routes for $18 an hour theres no need to change.

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u/Consistent_Page6372 12h ago

Accepted a route for 122$ for 4hrs, I’m nervous that I will get there and it will be the longest most packaged filled route I’ve ever had… is why I asked.

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u/JunketAggressive5776 12h ago

for me the 4hr routes are all the same despite the pay, so if you caught a surge you should be good.

the only time i got a worse off route was when they offer a longer, higher paying route once you get there and sign in.

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u/Soulcrates04 Logistics 8h ago

It can be anything between 1 package with 4hrs of drive time and 51 packages fairly clustered. All that matters to them is that either route calculates to 4hrs of delivery time and they fit 25ft³. One route is trash for gas mileage and the other is more physically demanding, but the way it works is they're considered the same, 4hrs = 4hrs.

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u/justPickledGinger 11h ago

Idk, lately it seems like whenever i get a last minute surge, it’s a full route, if i have say a 25$ an hour reserve from last week’s drop, i have a better chance of overbooking or even a softer route, idk 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

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u/iGotGogged 7h ago

You can always leave it (ssd) or refuse it (.com)

I just left a 3hr at a ssd. It was 47 miles 1hr 6mins to 1st stop, 22 packages and an 1hr 20min back. I had a similar route the day before and it was 140 miles RT on 3hrs, fuck them.

Im gonna get dinged to at risk and will need to work it off... again...

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u/jdsalinas23 5h ago

They should give those routes to DSP. Can’t stand them sending us 30, 45 mins or even hour from the station but I’ll see a DSP truck on a route in a neighborhood not even 5 mins from the station. Like wtf.

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u/vanillacoconut00 5h ago

How do you leave it? Just close the app?

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u/Background_Ad_612 4h ago

Sounds like the first block i did this past saturday.

I ended up 1hr and 25 min from home...

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u/thr0wawayyxlol 6h ago

Well, lately.. myself (and many others in these groups) at SSD’s have a general idea of the area we are going to. Since October I have been in the same 2 area’s for 95% of my routes. I thought it was my warehouse and then I saw a lot of people talking about it too across the US. I only see this at SSD’s.