Hector W P.
Google
💯 True! My experience confirms what other drivers have said about long wait times and rude staff. After radioing “Driver Check-In” and receiving acknowledgment, I waited over 30 minutes at the “Driver Cage” to be checked in. This is not typical for any official Amazon facility—Relay drivers are on tight schedules.
To make matters worse, the VAX1 staff member (gentleman with tattoos and glasses) told me to wait for my inbound trailer to be offloaded so I could retake it, rather than taking one of the empty trailers the system had already assigned.
While I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, this process requires unnecessary system manipulation—unassigning, repopulating the trailer to show availability, etc. This made no sense considering there were seven empty trailers available! The system won’t assign a trailer unless empties are already available, even when accounting for minimum empty pool requirements.
In the end, I waited for my inbound trailer to be live offloaded, only to end up taking the empty trailer the system had assigned me two hours earlier.
Yes, I wasted two hours for no reason, and I can’t shake the feeling that this was done with malicious intent.