This is not a job for someone with a small van. That means those giant pallets of everything from hair dryers to Nintendo Switch consoles are all packaged, wrapped in plastic, and then loaded onto the back of massive trucks.

The Amazon Relay program is designed to work with freight. A driver sees what loads they want to take, clicks to accept those deliveries, and gets going to earn money. When a new driver works for a private firm, they often suffer from lower pay, delayed checks, and have to pass a bunch of qualifications in order to drive.įor the Amazon load board, it is all about streamlining that process for efficiency and higher wages. This solves a significant problem most other companies suffer from – organization. That is a huge number! The Amazon Relay load board helps connect private drivers and companies with all those deliveries so they can make money shipping them around the country. Over 65% of the entire US population visited Amazon once per month to shop for products in 2020.

There are so many deliveries happening on a daily basis that Amazon needed to outsource drivers to help move them around the country. The goal of the app was to increase the distribution and delivery of products people sell on Amazon. In 2017 Amazon released a new logistics mobile app called Relay.

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