New Amazon Package Car

[Rick Ross]

I got the impression that story says that an outside company that delivers for Amazon is laying off drivers. Maybe because they have their own now?

All the delivery companies are "outside". Amazon uses these 3rd party delivery companies, is slow paying invoices and throws them away if there is a lawsuit. Did you read where the one company had just taken delivery on over 100 new vans weeks before being dropped as a DSP? Amazon has all the power, pays peanuts and still has fools lining up to start a delivery company.

They are also hiding the names of these delivery companies to try and shield themselves from further liability. I read an article awhile back that said many times victims can't track down the drivers or delivery company owners because the vans aren't marked and all look too similar to distinguish.

Locally, we had the Sprinter vans show up 6-8 months ago. Some of these look like they spent time in a warzone...they are dented and scratched everywhere.

 

[Johney]

All the delivery companies are "outside". Amazon uses these 3rd party delivery companies, is slow paying invoices and throws them away if there is a lawsuit. Did you read where the one company had just taken delivery on over 100 new vans weeks before being dropped as a DSP? Amazon has all the power, pays peanuts and still has fools lining up to start a delivery company.

They are also hiding the names of these delivery companies to try and shield themselves from further liability. I read an article awhile back that said many times victims can't track down the drivers or delivery company owners because the vans aren't marked and all look too similar to distinguish.

Locally, we had the Sprinter vans show up 6-8 months ago. Some of these look like they spent time in a warzone...they are dented and scratched everywhere.

Yes I assume they are, but it appears they now are doing it all on their own as they are buying massive amounts of equipment. I see new Amazon vans on trailers every night now heading south towards the Amazon hub in Hialeah.

 

[RTCD]

Amazon leases the vans to 3rd party contractors who in turn employ the drivers.

At any given moment Amazon can simply yank the vans and contract away from the 3P contractor and simply give it all to a different contractor. The drivers hire on with the new 3P contractor and the whole show keeps on rolling.

So now the bankrupt and ousted 3P contractor is left holding all the liability and Amazon keeps on going as if nothing ever happened.

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

Amazon is looking for the cheapest 3rd party contractor.
They won't be able to take over the world if they are paying out excessive amounts for labor and delivery

 

[Two Tokes]

Ya or Nay??

Looks like a real POS

 

[SmithBarney]

With such a long wheelbase it’s going to be impossible for their drivers to make sudden u-turns in the middle of a busy road.

Where their going, they don't need roads... just a nice front yard.

 

[hellfire]

That’s the electric vehicle. Evidently Benzos has ordered 100000 of them. Yeah, they are not a real threat

 

[hellfire]

Amazon orders 100K electric delivery trucks from Rivian as part of going carbon-neutral by 2040 – TechCrunch

 

[Northbaypkg]

Reading that article, those trucks won't even be on the road until 2021.

One hundred thousand, I wonder if that will be globally, or just here in the US?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Looks like it was designed by Pixar

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Guarantee that thing is safer in an accident than anything we drive.

It's easy to be safe with a vehicle that's in the shop 100% of the time or can't leave the lot.

 

[watdaflock?]

Google is neat.

 

[hellfire]

It's easy to be safe with a vehicle that's in the shop 100% of the time or can't leave the lot.

Half our trucks are red tagged,,, always.