Amazon Prime drivers are dangerous.

[338lapua]

Got on the freeway at 7th ave this morning at about 845 heading north and damn near got rear ended by a Amazon prime Mercedes van. He tailgated me and then whipped into the center lane almost bouncing between the semi in the high speed lane and my truck. Then he takes off cuts me off and is gone. Next one from the high speed lane cuts between two trucks almost hitting me and is gone. I got in the middle lane and from 7th ave to the stack is was Mercedes Amazon vans going by at probably 75 to 90 MPH. I got the numbers or two of them but the rest were flying. These guys were weaving in and out of traffic and in and out of the HOV lane before 9am. It was so dangerous I filed a report with DPS as well as with Amazon, there were between 10-15 of these vans driving the same damn way. USDOT is last report as none of these vans have DOT numbers on them where my company truck have to have them. This was the most dangerous thing I have ever seen on the road in Arizona.

Amazon has some seriously f***ed up drivers.

 

[DRTDIVR]

But I need my 2 day delivery....

 

[QuietM4]

But I need my 2 day delivery....

FPNI

 

[Crippledtrigger]

That happens when their boss is behind them beating them with a whipp.









Seriously, no excuse for that crap. The whip part isnt far from the truth.

 

[338lapua]

That happens when their boss is behind them beating them with a whipp.









Seriously, no excuse for that crap. The whip part isnt far from the truth.

One of the guys from my gun club works for Amazon. Says its the worst place he ever worked. Said you can get fired over taking a dump. Said people really do pee in bottles hiding in a aisle.

 

[Manitu]

A number of drivers used to be packers but now robots do packing in ever increasing numbers. Amazon gave them 10K towards the van and "training". They just trying to eat. Dominos had to back off the 30 minutes or free due to driver issues. We shall see...if they drive like they are running the warehouse isles translates to run the freeway lanes sounds like it is off to a good start.

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

Sounds like typical Phoenix driving to me.

 

[Crippledtrigger]

Apparently Amazon drivers are killing people all over the country. at least 60 serious accidents and 10 fatalities. Amazon is accused of hiding behind 3rd party contracts to avoid responsibility while putting pressure on contractors to reach unachievable targets.

So instead of fixing the problem they will term contracts with companies.

I suspect those drivers who lose jobs will just contract with whoever gets the new contracts. Amazon gets to go on putting pressure that causes some to be dangerous while looking like they did something.

Part of the linked story quoted below

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtm...ering-contracts-with-delivery-firms-linked-to

Amazon has abruptly canceled its contracts with three major delivery firms, a move that will put more than 2,000 people out of work and may signal a shift in how the online retail giant plans to deliver millions of packages to homes across the country every day.

Inpax Shipping Solutions, based in Atlanta, has told employment regulators in six states that it would lay off at least 925 employees beginning Oct. 2 and would cease all delivery services for Amazon by early December, according to government records.

Another contractor, Sheard-Loman Transport, said in a court filing late last month that its Amazon contract would not be renewed, a move that it called “completely unexpected and a cause for serious concern,” and that is said would lead to the firing of roughly 200 employees in three states. The firm, headquartered in Chicago, said it would cease delivering Amazon packages on Sept. 30.

And a third company, San Diego-based Letter Ride LLC, told labor authorities in California and Texas that in early December it would begin laying off 897 drivers, dispatchers and other employees.

The contract terminations follow recent investigations of Amazon’s fast-growing delivery network by BuzzFeed News and ProPublica, which focused on how the intense financial and deadline pressure Amazon puts on its growing fleet of independent delivery contractors can lead to worker mistreatment and threaten public safety. The news organizations documented deaths linked to each of these three contractors.

In December 2016, a van driven by an Inpax employee hit and killed Telesfora Escamilla, an 84-year old grandmother in Chicago. The driver was charged with reckless homicide but ultimately acquitted. A civil suit brought by the family of the victim claims that Amazon put undue time pressure on Inpax and its drivers; the suit is pending and Amazon has denied responsibility.

In June 2018, a 21-year old Sheard-Loman driver, Traivon Hemingway, was killed when his van cut across several lanes of a freeway, also in Chicago, before crashing into a tractor-trailer.

That same month, Stacey Hayes Curry, a 61-year-old legal secretary, was run over by a Letter Ride driver delivering Amazon packages in the San Diego office park where she worked. The driver pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular manslaughter.

Full story at link

 

[Doc Holliday]

"The driver pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular manslaughter. "

Your life is only worth a misdemeanor now. How far we have fallen. We used to hang people for stealing a horse.

 

[Flash]

"The driver pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular manslaughter. "

Your life is only worth a misdemeanor now. How far we have fallen. We used to hang people for stealing a horse.

That's tremendous compared what happened to a friend of mine around 3 years ago.

Woman named Helen who shot with my weekly shooting group. Retired schoolteacher and a believer in self defense (she carried CCW) as well as a great human being.

She rode her bicycle to the grocery store to get some exercise whenever she went shopping.

One day she was pedaling to the supermarket in the bicycle lane and a car swerved over to the right and ran her over. This was a 45 MPH zone in Mesa. The driver was a 17 year old male who was being followed by his dad in another car.

When the cops questioned him, he told them he fell asleep, woke up to see he was drifting into the left lane and swerved right, thus running over Helen.

He got............................wait for it................................a ticket for reckless driving and was sent on his way. I've got a DPS Highway Patrol officer friend and I asked about this. He said the kid was probably texting but they couldn't search his cell phone without probable cause and there was no probable cause, so he gets a ticket.

So if any of you guys want to kill someone for any reason, wait until they're riding a bicycle, motorcycle, jogging or walking and run them down, then tell the cops you fell asleep. All you'll get is a ticket.