Amazon Relay Job Offer, NYC regional?

Just for the record, I think you should take the job. Amazon will be around for a long time, and generally, if it's a drop and hook deal, you won't deal with low bridges or tight turns, you aren't peddling eggs to the local mom and pop grocery. Drop and hook is usually in a truck friendly area, it has to be to handle the volume. W2 I think is by the hour, no? I would grab this job before someone else does. Don't be afraid of these types of jobs, they are the best and don't come up often. I think if you go with a bottom type carrier, you may be unhappy, they go through a lot of drivers, and you'll find out why.

 

W2 does not mean by the hour. It means that your treated as a regular employee as opposed to an owner operator and the employer takes your taxes and Social security, Medicare taxes, etc. out. If not paid W2 you would be paid 1099 which means they just pay you and all the employer does is report to the IRS what they paid you. You would have to make sure to pay a quarterly tax payment.

 

Driving NYC is something that I wouldn't hire anybody to do unless they had at LEAST a year's driving experience. It is a challenge every d@mn day!

 

Amazon Relay will take care of the routing for you. The only thing is Relay uses old HOS, not the new FMCSA rules.
For instance, instead of the driver being able to stop their 14 with the 2 hour sleeper rule, you'll have to use the 16 hour exemption. That exemption is really for daycab driving. You'll be in a sleeper if you're going to New York. There's a big DC in Stanton Island, and smaller ones in Queens. 28.00 is not nearly the pay to go into NYC. Good luck

 

I wouldn't want to have anything to do with any Amazon "partner" or truck driving "opportunity". Amazon keep LOTS of shady overseas companies operating trucks in the US on the road and are involved in a shocking number of truck wrecks every week. Their shady partners use "self-certified" ELDs so they are beyond the reach of US law enforcement, which allows them to run drivers 24/7. Now that the issue of illegal aliens with fake or fraudulently issued CDLs are making national news after Harjinder Singh's U-Turn triple homicide, why tie yourself to that boat anchor?

 

Look back over your other thread and start the applications. You'll have a job in a couple of days.
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Road test results and question where to apply

 

How much they offer they only offer me 7,000-10,000 per week

 

Amazon has a lot of BS. Speed limiters. Cameras. I talked to one company driver who said when he yawns he will get a call. Manager thinks he’s tired. It watches how you blink. Move your head. Don’t you dare touch your phone to start pandora.

If it’s that kind of job? NOBODY should do it. Let them struggle finding people until they change!