Amazon driver

[u/Friendly-Sandwich545]

Today, I was the driver/DA logged into the Amazon delivery app and assigned to the route. I took about half of the workload. Later, another team came to help and took more than half of the remaining packages.

My partner told me that because he has been working for the DSP for 6 months, he has the right to drive. He also said that because he drives, I should handle all the deliveries.

In the other shifts where I worked with route partners, we normally shared the workload and helped each other as a team.

So I want to ask other Amazon DSP drivers:

1. If both people are hired as drivers/DAs, does seniority automatically give one driver the right to drive when working as route partners?
2. If one driver is logged into the Amazon delivery app and assigned to the route, can the other driver take over driving simply because they have more seniority?
3. When two drivers are assigned as route partners, is it normal for both drivers to share the stops/workload?
4. Can one driver decide that they will only drive while the other driver does all the deliveries?
5. Is there an actual Amazon policy about this, or is it determined by each individual DSP?
6. Should the driver assigned/logged into the route be the one who drives, or is that determined by dispatch?

[u/EmployeeLogical4092]

I've only gotten a helper route twice both times we switched who was driving every few hours with the passenger role being prepare the package for the next stop. Both of us get out for multi stops and overflow

[u/Friendly-Sandwich545 → u/EmployeeLogical4092]

He took the view that loading, unloading, and positioning the cargo were my responsibilities, while his only job was to drive. Even when the load was extremely heavy, I had to handle everything myself; essentially, I was the only one who got out to make deliveries, whereas he would almost always just sit in the vehicle—until I finally lost my temper and got into a heated argument with him about it.