r/PortlandORFlexDrivers

Who here is working for both flex and dsp? And if you are, how? A while back I applied and they asked me if I worked for flex . I said yes but they told me I couldn’t do both. Do you just lie and be like no I don’t work for flex? Or how are you able to do both?

This is from Shipt delivery.

Once you’ve loaded your vehicle, you have to return the cart to the specific area and then scan the sign and then they release your route.

Seems like this is something that Amazon could easily do, but they would rather hire a bunch of people and yell at us with the megaphone.

So, I've been doing whole food routes the last couple of days because this last week I cannot catch a block at D4. Soo here are my findings:

1. I will never complain about mileage from a block with D4(maybe).

2. Whole foods is wayyy worse than .com station

3. It's very high mileage

4. Since the change with whole foods on them doing one package orders and what not, the routes are all over the place.

5. If your route from whole foods is all one package stops, you are not getting a tip.

6. Tips aren't like they used to be.

Each of my routes ranged from 80 miles to over 100.

You have to at least do 4 (2hr) blocks to make $200 which is equivalent to 2 (3.5hr) blocks at a .com station

But with .com stations that's 2 routes and most likely gonna be around 200 miles altogether maybe. With wholes foods is gonna be 100 miles each trip so 400 miles for the day.

My car is good on gas but I had to fill up everyday with doing whole foods. With .com I fill up every 2-3 days

Do with this information whatever you like, just thought people should have an idea. Idk how people are whole food only flex drivers, it's so bad. I forgot to screen shot some but there was a lot more Salem routes.

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I’ve never seen it be so damn busy here in Portland. Not even at 7am. It feels as busy as 3am here. 😭

I think I figured out what’s a large part of Flex being particularly aggravating for many drivers recently. For all the talk of competition, no surges and pay being not worth it, there may be something that many haven’t considered: The EV Amazon marked vans.

It’s a pretty safe assumption that much like EV consumer vehicles, the faster you drive highways, the less range and more battery you use. This would make prioritizing local city routes the most efficient use of the EV Vans leaving Flex to pick up the slack with longer routes out in the hinterlands and at the edges of the delivery radius.

It seems like a lot of complaints have coincided with the advent of widespread usage of the EV’s and I recently noticed that I see a ton of them around town, but as a mixed urban rural market, I still see standard petrol vans when the distance from the station is further than average.

I don’t know if Amazon is footing the bill for charging, but using less battery and leaving the flex drivers to pay as much as possible for fuel costs also benefits the company. I’ve been trying to get a work around, within reason and while I’m still getting some routes, without tipping my hand too much I’ve had some success with maximizing earnings vs mileage.

wtf is going on rn . I’ve never seen VOR3 so packed, it looks as packed as 3am

I could manage everything besides the huge box to the right, that one just doesn’t make sense to begin with..and adding the rest makes it even funnier. I’d immediately mark that huge package as damaged and bring it back inside lol foh🤣🤣