I so flex almost every day. Our warehouse puts yellow stickers on all the packages numbering them from 1 to last. As you scan them in and load you can also sort. Hope that helps and God bless you thanks for all your hard work!
Done a few blocks on flex out of Amr Cyn Hub it pays ok I only accept blocks when its over $150 for 3-4 hour block but when I accept the block I always get sent 1 hour north for the delivery's haven't done it for a while. I ended up buying a ford transit connect cargo van started my own courier business and was able to get a contract with a big medical supply company been working with them for the last 5 months. Keep up the good work
I always put as many packages in the passenger seat when I do these types of runs for Walmart. It helps me find the correct package and scan it in before parking at the customer's residence.
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If you have a 4 hour shift and get say 10 packages, expect a LOT of driving in between drop offs, maybe15 minutes betweeneach stop. 40 packages, a lot less driving. Drop offs are going to be a LOT closer to each other, maybe 2 to 5 minutes. Apartment complexes and businesses are the worst, very time consuming for each stop trying to figure out where the exact drop off point is, gate and security codes, walking up stairs and through hallways, etc.
Pro tip: go to the Flex warehouse and check in once you're close but don't actually line up just yet. Let everyone else line up and try to be the last or one of the last drivers in line. Sometimes by the time they get to you they don't have any packages for you to deliver and you still get paid the full amount. I did this probably about 3 times where I got paid in full and didn't deliver a single package. Granted this was over a year ago and maybe they've changed since but worth a try
I’m going to add this to my collection of delivery apps. Food delivery has been slow and I just quit my restaurant job because mentally it was too draining..
As a former amqzon prime driver. It could help you guys to have a sharpie and write the house numbers on the side of the boxes and have some stacked in the passenger seat. That way you shave off some time between houses looking for the box
Same, after accounting in my gas($15), maintenance-wear-tear($5), taxes(10%), trying to deliver 50 packages quickly within a couple hours ... the folks working at McDonalds made more than me
Hey Mike thanks for the info. Great content keep up the great work you are doing. Did my first ever flex delivery yesterday a block of 3.5 hours payout $100.00. 45 packeges picked up. Drove 23 miles to the station for pickup then another 29 miles for the entire delivery run snd finished 1 hour sooner than expected and drove back home another 23 miles back. You are right it all depends where you get sent to deliver the packages and if the pickup station is close to you. In my case I would only consider payout larger than$25/h to be able to make it worth my time. As with all these gig apps you gotta know your market. Patience to learn is key. The other drawback I see os that they Cap your hours to a max per week. That makes it elegible to be a filler app when you combine it with Another
A good tip with flex is to review your itinerary before you leave the hub. You may have time stops on your route. And they always seem to put them at the end of your delivery. I do this to avoid going back to the flex hub to return a package. I’ve also shown the supervisors that a package should’ve been delivered before my pick up time. They never take it back they always say to attempted delivery.
Pro tip: do Whole Foods before anything last resort do warehouse deliveries… also on mileage just sign up for Lyft and Uber then do destination filter back to home and you should be able to count ALL the mileage since technically you were still working(it would be just for another gig company)
But how often do they tip well? I did WF once. Had to drive to a different city for every delivery. One customer was definitely very wealthy but still didn’t earn much. $22.50 plus $17 tips. 60 miles including commute. And the bags were much more difficult to carry than packages. Is it usually better than this?
To really know the your city you have to do it at least 3 months. If your city don’t tip well and they are affluent then do something else I can only speak for my area. Some day are bad some are good and some are great. It averages out.
Tip, when taking your photo try to get a bigger area not just the package, if possible get the address in the photo. Another tip send the customer a text about the package at the door this way they know it there, also if you have multiple packages state how many in the text, if you see other packages there when you get there include it in the count, again it let's the customer know you were at there door, you usually get a thank you as you are on your way to the next stop. Keep track of your miles with a mileage tracker app use those miles on your taxes.
This is not possible always! Only if you get all houses and if its a gated community and customer does not provide the gate codes, you end up loosing time
In bigger markets the pay isn’t worth it overall. High mileage on your car. High tax rates on your earnings. And the likelihood of you getting tips often has been diminished ever since Amazon started accepting EBT. Most of those food deliveries are from EBT and you can’t tip with that payment method. So…a high number of packages to deliver for the amount you are getting paid makes it not worth it. It stresses you out. The higher the amount of the block , the more packages in your block (route). Time is money. They don’t pay you for time that you spend completing the packages after the agreed time of the block. So for whatever reasons you are out past that time you won’t get paid for that. And contact support are very rude people. Most (if not all) work from home. I’ve heard some pretty interesting things in the background of a few of the calls I’ve had to make to them. In my experience it wasn’t worth it. This video didn’t show an actual package pickup process. It was edited. Those carts are stuffed. The trunk,backseat (and floorboard), front passenger seat (and floorboard) would’ve been loaded down for $81 block here in Las Vegas. And there’s blocks starting at 3:00-4:00-5:00 AM. So a market like San Diego,San Francisco etc would be even worse. Somewhere rural would be better I would think. Inner city isn’t worth it.
Hey Mike, I just heard on your brothers channel that you ordered a model Y a few months ago. I just put a model 3 on order strictly to do delivery work with. I’d love to hear what your experience is like when you get your model Y. I was considering documenting my experience because I have yet to see a RU-vidr that is a full-time delivery driver using a Tesla.
Flex is the best if you are in close proximity of the warehouse. If you do I it long enough you will eventually have to drive very far to deliver your packages
Making you wear that vest is BS. That alone means you're an employee and not an independent contractor. If it's 100% optional then that's fine, but if it's required then it's an issue. When you hire a plumber to fix a leak do you tell him what he can wear while he fixes it? I don't think so!
They have sent me 45 minutes/hour out of Houston. When I load and don't know area I use alphabetical street order to organize. You can get tips on Fresh warehouse orders or Whole Foods. deliveries
I did ups seasonal, pvd. I used a Kia Soul and did 150-200 stops a day. It’s possible, you just have to stage your packages perfectly and cram everything in there lol.
As as an ex-fedex driver I used to do from 25-35 stops an hour average the most I ever did was 45 and used to get paid $1.25 per stop ... I used to love that job then I got injured sadly
@D F I learned the area that I used to do very well...learned the streets and would look up the streets before hand to see if I had any packages there... organization of your truck is very important...my package handler was the best he would help me organizing my truck... I would go through half my route or at least 1 3rd of my route then I would stop and arrange everything again and push everything forward ...
It helps out alot and sometimes we spend more time looking for packaged rather than delivering...makes a big difference...and I would also run the whole route
So how do y manage deliveries in busy city areas … parking issues , do u have any tips ? I will be starting soon and I am a little worried about this part ….
True true. Love amazon..been doing it for 4 yrs. And still people don't all know we are flex drivers..they think im amazon driving MY car lol..yea its my car..wish it was amazons car😅
Coming from an ex amazon driver. Sometimes there are just to many packages for the dsps to handle. Or there are many call outs from dsps, van break downs etc.
DSP go out during the mornings, Flex is for same day order. You order in the morning and it will be there in the afternoon if the product is available locally.
I worked for amazon as a delivery driver for real. I quit them because they lie a lot to the drivers. 180 stops with 300 packages. Most of your stops are 2 -5 houses, sometimes not even on same street. THAT IS ONE STOP. Or a stop to a retirement facility listed as 1 stop 30packages. Said stop you have to walk a couple miles in the complex to deliver this 1 stop lol. But 28 stops for a 4 hour shift? If i was in an amazon van, i was averaging 25-40 stops an hour. Maybe I should look into flex lol.
You can choose which warehouse you want to go to? There's a warehouse 2 mile away from me so im assuming that i won't be delivering anything too far like 15 miles or more right? Also in the morning do have to choose your evening shift if thats what you wanna do? Im interested in doing a split shift
By any chance somebody knows how can I get more WAREHOUSE? I only have 2 and in Google maps I can see there are at least 3 more warehouse, I've sent email and they replied to me nonsense stuffs :/
Hi Mike! Hope u r fine. Let me ask you: what is next on your amazon flex app screen after you take the picture of the package? What do you have to tap next? Thanks
Mike you need a cart go buy you a cart ...in case you have to walk a little bit with all the bags .. sometimes it's heavy and sometimes have milk there's no way I'm without my cart for this reason....
Great video! One question specifically for you, Mike. You count your business miles from home because you have a home office that's related to your Amazon Flex gig? Or is there another reason why you can actually start counting your business miles from home with this specific Amazon Flex block in the video? (I know that one can start tracking business miles with Amazon if one is on 'Available Now' mode.)
It shows the name of the location which you can search in your maps. If there’s one for a warehouse, Whole Foods, or a mall, I can see which one it is. If you accept the block it will eventually provide directions to the address.
Kinda pointless when the video is mostly your face! Show the scanning and loading process and more delivery footage! In the future more actual footage and less face.
Look on amazons website on the very bottom with all of those links. Sign up link may be there. Also, I was on a waiting list for around 9 months, so you may have that problem as well.
This might complicate mileage calculations for tax purposes but if you get a bunch of deliveries to the same area and they aren't very large it might be worth having an electric scooter or bike in the car that you can pull out for those. Park once, zip around to do a few deliveries at once, then back in the car to the next delivery. should save you a lot of time looking for parking, but it would only work in certain situations.
You cannot pickup a shift if your previous shift block has not ended. No double dipping. But once your last shift ends, yes you may pick up another. Do 3 or 4 shifts in 1 day, but no overlapping.
Sometimes you can see another block if it busy and they need the packages to go out, if you know you will finish before your end time and can get back to the pickup location on time then it's a yes.
I drove for a contracting company for Amazon let me asks you a question I tried doing this but the application was soo long do I half to wait til it end to apply for the job??? Ps stay safe out there in god bless us all out here.
There is no long application process for flex drivers, it all depends on if there are opening and how many people are on the waiting list. You can be placed on a waiting list, I was told that if you work for a DSP they don't want you on flex.
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I suck tho at uber eats so take it with a grain of salt lol dude said he makes 150 a day here. I make 60. Im like bro i follow the power strip and 6 dollars or less tips but i still be getting 2 dollar tips on 40 min runs. And i hate how the rain pushes the screen and makes you accept another delivery and you find out its far af.
I was wondering Mike I am 18 and I need the delivery insurance but no insurance company will accept me because most (pretty much all) say that I am too young and need to be between 21-25
Home advisor and Angi Leads. You have a profile so people know your background and whether you’re certified in whatever. Either way, I usually get requests for ikea furniture build, assemble trampolines, things like that. Usually pops up once or twice a day. I’ve never done it though.
Did my first flex block yesterday and I had 29 deliveries and I organized my packages by order letter. for example AAA-passenger seat, BBB-driver rear, CCC-middle rear, DDD-Passenger rear, and all the boxes in the trunk. it really did help me because I did not have many packages and I just read what letter I had and quickly found them.
Dusk driving in PA, watch out for DEER, at least the ones near North Park seem to know how to look both ways before crossing, but them real rural deer can be dangerous.
Dude it's called numbering your packages from to 2-30 or 2 -45 how many packages you got that's what we do we number our packages and that's how we are able to finish early than the normal
