Another Amazon contractor that should not have been.

To start now and start weeding these people out and from reports are there are scale houses in Texas and Arkansas who are arresting these drivers who can’t pass a English proficiency test at the scale house… It’s beginning to happen. Apparently multiple reports of this occurring

 

Good it should’ve never happened in the first place. I heard about Texas. Not Arkansas.

 

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure they get wrecked at a faster rate than they can be melted down LOL

 

That’s a possibility.

 

Yes, some people just really suck at life.

 

Amazon hires trucks same as any other company. Your government is the one who allowed all these pricks in here, handed out authorities like Vegas Strip cards and turned them loose with a truck faster and weighing more than anything they've ever been around and on the opposite side of the road from where they come from... And everyone's pissed at Amazon? You want to do something about it advocate support against the illegal competition. Look up Arkansas' Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act Bill HB1569 which is in direct correlation to these drivers you're referring to and we all hate.
Find solution to the problem, not the effect.

 

It's still cheaper than the cost of building a private fleet - probably just in health insurance alone. According to OOIDA, it costs 87 cpm to operate a truck, but let's assume some economies of scale and say it would be 75 cpm for Amazon. Looking at Walmart and the LTL fleets - all in pay looks to be about 85 cpm, call in 90 cpm when figuring benefits - or $1.65 per mile total. Amazon relay pays $1.50 a mile on average. Rough math says Amazon saves $10,000 a year per truck by using "independent carriers". Assuming each wrecked trailer costs Amazon $250,000 in cargo and trailer replacements, if fewer than 1 in 40 Amazon drivers have a full trailer loss, Amazon is money ahead. Personally, I think these numbers are soft. I think each year Amazon could afford to wreck 1 out of every 30 trailers they own and still be more profitable than running their own private fleet. Despite their numerous wrecks, the numbers aren't at that level.

Then consider how many lawsuits Amazon has defeated due to it's truck drivers being "independent".

 

Walmart all in driver pay is higher than that and having a dependable and reliable supply chain is priceless. That's what made them what they are. Cutting corners isn't the way. The damage to Amazon's brand and the lawsuits, the leased trailer junkyard they bought, the backlash? There's huge costs in there that aren't just cents per mile.

 

Not sure how the container world works but does this company need a contract with Amazon or are they simply being told what containers to move where and when they need to go?

 

I've pulled many Amazon branded containers. They all came from the Fulfillment centers not the rail yards. It probably doesn't cost them anything to replace the trailer. Wouldn't the carriers insurance have to replace it?