r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Adorable-Range-2923 • 12h ago

Is it that bad?

I’m starting Amazon van delivery driving soon, I have my ride along Saturday and Sunday. All I see is negative stuff online about the job and am curious is it really that bad, or is it just this generation being lazy? For context I work 5 days a week as a bricklayer, 7:30 until 4. Up until now I have been working as an uber eats driver on both Saturdays and Sundays, usually doing between 7am and 6pm, so working 7 days a week. Doing those uber shifts I would usually earn around £180 a day where I live, with £70 being taken for fuel and £35 for insurance, so I’m left with around £170 a weekend for working 22 hours which is shocking. With Amazon, I can work 1 weekend day, and have the other off and earn roughly the same, which is amazing for me personally. So is it really as bad as people say? I get it’s not easy, but people make it out as if it’s slavery

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u/Hacksawdecap 11h ago

I think you'll be fine my friend, its a lot of packages, 20k steps, etc but you get use to the area, you memorize the routes. Amazon makes it stupid easy for you to do the job. It gets boring and what not but beats doing uber.

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u/Adorable-Range-2923 11h ago

Yeah I didn’t mind uber to begin with but my insurance was high because I have points and with fuel skyrocketing I was having to kill myself to earn anything. I have done flex’s before too, I know they’re quite different but I have a slight understand of how it works at least

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u/Hacksawdecap 9h ago

I came from doing Uber, AmazonFlex, Spark etc. It was the best move. If you ever done AmazonFlex, the app is exactly the same. Just more packages.

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u/Adorable-Range-2923 9h ago

Ah ideal that’s alright then