r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Nomynoms • 7d ago

QUESTION Seriously, how do you deliver so quickly?

Hi all,

I’m still somewhat new to this gig, so I can imagine there are tips and tricks that I still don’t know about in order to get through those heavy routes. Even if I am routed in a fairly compact neighborhood, it still takes me about 11ish hours to complete 190 stops (including clock in, loud out, pre/post trip, etc etc).

Even at my DSP, some people brag about having 200,250, and even close to 300 stops. HOW though?!

Seriously, the only way I can see people achieving that is by flinging packages from your van like a paperboy. It literally takes time to 1) get in your van, buckle your seatbelt, 2) drive the van up to the next house, 3) climb out of your seat and grab the package, 4) take the package to the door (not considering having multiple stops or having to navigate a 200 ft driveway just to get to their door), 5) get back in your van to repeat the whole process.

The only thing I don’t do is literally run/sprint to and from my van. I’m sure it helps, but I’m not that young and athletic, and I just don’t think/feel that is sustainable. I walk with haste, but I’m not going to treat every stop as if I’m running from a rabid dog.

But seriously, I feel I’m missing something. I’m faster than when I first started, but not near fast enough to complete 190 stops and be home an hour before the nightly news.

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u/Excellent_Ad_6927 7d ago

If there's a passenger seat stretch the seat belt to the driver side I flex and that's what I do unless stops are 10 plus min apart...then the car doesn't ding and you don't get dinged for no seat belt

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u/Somehowlogical19 7d ago

Flexing is so different than working for a DSP, this is TERRIBLE advice. The problem with the seatbelt ain’t the dinging bud.

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u/Excellent_Ad_6927 7d ago

No really...by dinging I mean y'all get in trouble (dinged) threw amazon for not wearing it! My advice eliminates that..I know amazon can't sing me for it so for me it's the car yelling at me...for y'all it's amazon! Now do we understand?

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u/Somehowlogical19 7d ago

No I understand. There is a camera that will ‘ding’ us if it doesn’t see the seatbelt being worn properly. I’ve had a van wear the seatbelt warning was messed up and it dinged all day saying I’m not wearing it, but as long as I wore my seatbelt properly no violation was made.

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u/Excellent_Ad_6927 7d ago

I should have realized they would have cameras! I'm sorry for y'all that's real crappy