r/PortlandORFlexDrivers

I'd do Downtown hands down; yeah i mean it's ghetto but better than Longview by a long shot imo

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Sound off. Things have been a little chaotic on our end lately. But the yard has been even more so.

More chaotic drivers coming out of the new problem solve area. Flying 16 mph through the bypass, when it clearly says stick to 5.
I don’t want any collisions due to impatience. But I get that you wanna get out there. Slow down so we can track you before you hit another car leaving a pod.

App problems, that your driver support teams are supposed to be solving. We cannot. We wish we could, and solve it as we can, but that’s a whole entire different department. Yell at them, not us.

We have a great crew most of the time. We are not the source of your inconvenience.

But, we are a caring dispatch crew, so if you’re amenable to it, we will get you out and happy as soon as possible.

But, feedback is appreciated. Because things are only getting more intense, and I want to know how to better assist you.

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Hot coco? I've never bought from them before and I'm curious

Saw I had one bin as I pulled in. Cringed cuz I knew it would be Longview. :( Route was 7 packages. Had to take one back to the warehouse per Amazon support because of a bad Amazon locker at the Chevron station. Drove 136.45 miles and my mileage deductions for this route ended up being $103.70 which was more than I even made on the route. Thankfully, I do drive an EV, so the overall cost to me, other than my time and sanity, was very little, but ugh. I hate Longview with a passion. 😩

I decided to try a 1.5 hour route and I don’t know if I’ll ever try one again. The route was 2 packages. One Hillsboro and one Forest Grove. First stop would be 50 minutes away and who even knows how far the Forest Grove stop would’ve been. And that’s before considering Hwy 26 traffic coming back home… I was not going to have a 1.5 hour route be a 4 hour route from traffic. It is the first time I’ve ever used the “end route” button and returned the packages into the drop box at VOR3 instead of even attempting the route.

So I usually only do VOR3 for a 3:45 am block or before to avoid the chaos, getting there 20-30 minutes early, but this morning is an absolute cluster fk. Line out on Schmeer, cars circling the lot, horns honking, people yelling and cutting others off, vehicles parked mid lane waiting for a space preventing others from passing.. I’ve never seen it this bad at this time of the morning. I have to wonder how people aren’t missing their start times. And how this is affecting the stations metrics for getting deliveries out on time.

Aside from what they’re already doing to “improve” the lot, and I do believe they had to do something, what else can they do? Somethins gotta give. This is not sustainable.

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Just wanted to remind everyone that these will be the closures on I-5 starting Sept. 11th for up to 5 weeks. It's going to be SO lovely. :(

Soo I have two packages to return from my route this morning. I didn't have to mark them as missing or anything on my route. 1 was marked missing at the station by the employee and one wasn't even supposed to be on my route. I got the the notification on the updates page to return them but it's missing now. Should I contact support or? I would usually not care and just throw them in the return bin but with them "cracking down" on returns I don't want to get hit with stealing.

The new system today when I tried to do my face scan it almost failed the first time this is to 2 attempts remaining I usually pick up morning block for this not that much light but I was able to successfully do it the second time just image if I had failed it would I have been deactivated?