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Re:How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Resp... by jurassic on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:17PM (#20892471)
These "contractor" drivers are misclassified employees who are not trained to the safety standard of logistics providers like FedEx and UPS.
Re:How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery, Avoiding Resp... by djsumdog on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:14PM (#20892720)
and FedEx/UPS have insurance that can deal with these situations. Here Amazon is pushing the liability down to smaller companies who could easily fold if their insurance premiums starts to go up. Amazon will then just move on to the next contracting company that tries to push it's way in on tight margins.