Day in the Life
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Check out this quick video to see what a day is like....
https://www.youtube.com/@DriverDSP
So this is what you can expect for typical day. Get to the warehouse whatever time you have to be there. This is different for each DSP. Some start loading at the station at 9:30am, some don't start until 11:30am, and every 30 mins or so in between.
So you get up with your DSP squad, get a little pouch with your stuff in it. This includes your phone, charger, maybe a credit card if you have to get gas for truck. Manager or dispatch may give the group a quick talk about what to focus on. Whatever metric Amazon is pushing to them at that time, or whatever numbers have not been up to par they may remind you to work on. Most common example of this is anything from wearing seatbelt, or not speeding, to making sure you are not leaving the truck running, which is a big one at the moment.
After that you just hop in van and follow the line of other drivers into the part of the warehouse called the "launch pad" where you will load your van. Usually your sitting in this line for maybe 5-15 minutes waiting for the DSP company in front of you to finish on the launch pad.
Amazon employee will usually be directing you exactly what lane to get in and where to park. If you have any questions just tell them you are new and you have no clue what you are doing. Pretty much everyone at the warehouse is cool. Once you park then you wait for all the other drives to fill in the rest of launch pad and park and then they will sound a horn or blow a whistle or something like that to signal that you can get out of the van. At that point your phone would of loaded by now telling you where your carts are staged. You find the carts, scan them, then load the van. Click the youtube link if you want to see best way to load the van.
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Then thats pretty much it, the rest of the day is just delivering.