Is your behavioural model of Amazon that they are trying to maximise firings?

Maximizing profit.

It's a large chunk of logistics. When EDL (electronic data logging) became mandatory a crapton of drivers left the industry because they could no longer fudge records.

The labor churn is an unintended, and ignored side effect.

I think they're definitely trying to maximize _cause_ for firings, such that if and when they do firings, they can't (as easily) be accused of firing for wrongful cause.

sounds more fair to drivers if everyone is policed equally. otherwise like you say, they are forced to speed. if you want to drive safely you can't and also keep your job. whereas now the metrics will show what is reasonable.

Maybe that would actually help you to prove if you are being asked to do something unreasonable

In real world practical tests, speeding does not reduce the overall travel times proportionally with the speed. This is ESPECIALLY true for city driving and for a job with a ton of stops like a delivery driver.

Going 45 in a 40 is a 12.5% increase on paper but maybe 3% more deliveries in a day at best. I'd be shocked if that much honestly.

Speeding does not help anyone.

> 3% more deliveries

With stack ranking, this can easily get you from the bottom half to the top half pf performers.