delivery driver

order picker

Rapid-Express-Delivery

Terrible management and even worse owner, really bad routes, getting home late, often in areas far from restrooms and food for lunch, lunch is only 30 min yet it’s a 10 hour shift, if you get done early you don’t get paid for the rest of your shift, will write you up if you take too much time, peeing in a bottle is a basic part of the job, if you actually sit to enjoy your lunch you will fall behind on your route and get written up, mostly driving through your lunch, entire day is taken up, no time for personal and social life, you will never be promoted, there is no room for growth, no accountability within the company, especially when the management or owner is at fault, owner often teases the staff with unkept promises, i.e. getting paid for the unworked hours for doing a great job and getting done ahead of schedule, benefits are a joke, no 401K, no stock program, overall no incentives what so ever to stay with this company. You can get this same job, with the same pay, with the same schedule, and even in this same station (DTP7) as this company if you go with ANY OTHER company. Any other DSP is better than this one. The routes alone are a good enough reason to never work for this DSP. (Plant City, Downtown Plant City, Seffner, Dover, Valrico, Thonotosassa) Save yourself the headache! 

I've worked at this dsp for around six months now and It becomes more and more dreadful everyday. The only con I can give it is the above average pay for the time being, but as more and more companies adopt the $15 an hour rate this job becomes absolutley not worth it. It is actually killing people and amazon or the dsp its self could care less about your or your safety on the road. Cameras are installed in the van to prove driver fault, driving is closley monitored on an app that forces you to make decisions you normally wouldnt on the road, your vans are over stuffed giving you zero space to move, routes are overloaded making it where you get no breaks during the day, hours are long so theres no day when you get home, being alone for 10 hours a day really takes its toll socially, and if youre like me and drive a DOT van the van can get scorching hot in the 110s. The job is only good for despiration, if you need a high-ish paying job where you dont mind being just another body on the road then this is not a bad pick but otherwise i would recommend steering clear of any amazon warehouse job.

25 stops an hour and they expect you to always be 10+ stops ahead at all times otherwise they will constantly send extra drivers to help you even if your 8 stops ahead which just eats up more of your time because you have to sit and coordinate with this other driver on where to meet up which just again eats more time. Unless your sonic or the flash you won't be getting those 15 minute breaks nd it's gotten to the point where drivers where skipping their lunch to keep up, only now the company got in trouble and are now forcing drivers to take their lunches between 3-4pm or you'll get written up if you don't clock out at those times. Let's be honest if Amazon cut their packages in half and the DPS had more drivers then we would be able to work no problem. Instead of 300+ packages for one driver make it 150 packages for 2 drivers that way your more likely to get deliveries done.  This won't happen because overworking people and replacing them is much more convenient then actually fixing the problem. To be honest working at the fire station was less stressful then this.

so originally I was promised 40 hours a week and that this wasn’t a performance based job, come to day one you get thrown into the deep end without any proper training, they threaten to fire you after the first day driving without any warning, there’s some days you go in and they’ll tell you to go home because they’ve hired too many people, then every device that’s used and delivery van has some sort of issue with but it gets completely overlooked. I had to use my personal phone for the maps since the phones they provided were cracked really bad and the maps wouldn’t work and they fired me immediately for being on my phone when I was only using the maps because they don’t know how to be professional in a work setting, definitely don’t recommend this place to anyone!

I've worked from driving to dispatching and the entire experience is less than fun. The pay is ok and the benefits are minimal. Job security is a joke. If they dont like you you'll be put on backup and you wont get work. I've seen people who've worked for the company for years put in a two week notice and told to go home and not come back. The only positions available will be driver or dispatch, management is family.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Driving the vans by yourself. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The managers and dsps and the favoritism 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Dysfunctional and unorganized 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Drive the 30+ minutes to work just to be told there are no routes and have to turn around and go home

They don’t care if you are new and busting your butt and trying to learn everything on top of getting used to the HEAVY routes they throw at you . If you are costing them any money in the event that you are trying to become a better employee, it is seen as wrong and you will be punished by not getting ANY hours despite being hired on full time 

It’s a simple job if your able to be organized and keep a steady pace throughout the day. Gets repetitive and can get mentally tiring, only things to be worried about are dogs and bad weather. If you’re new there’s a chance of not getting your hours, typically they schedule extra drivers who’ll end up getting sent home.

They are pretending to be professional however, they are actually not. You go to work, wait but sometimes you dont get work and go back to home. I worked there 1,5 years, specially dispatchers are rude and unprofessional. Even in the first day of the interview they made us wait outisde more than 30 minutes. Now, I am happy with my job in another dsp.

My experience with rapid express delivery was overall pretty good the owner and management where very nice people they helped you when you needed time off it was not a problem for family or medical needs PTO was decent I worked there for 3 years almost what's the dot driver box truck or Step Van

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