Two days after Amazon Prime Day, a group of over 60 Palmdale Amazon contract drivers, backed by Teamsters and community members, picketed outside Amazon’s ONT 5 warehouse, blocking trucks from ...

And Amazon controls almost every moment of their day, constructing the delivery order, mapping out street directions and, for van drivers, watching for unsafe driving with AI-powered cameras.

A real Amazon Prime truck makes a delivery to an apartment complex. Human smugglers in California tried to copy the van, right down to the sound it makes when reversing, federal agents allege.

Amazon’s Flex drivers face even rockier terrain. These gig workers make up a smaller share of the company’s driver pool, and like Uber and Lyft, Amazon considers them independent contractors.

The Amazon driver raves about the Rivian van's massive cargo volume, digital displays, 360-degree camera and keyless functionality. However, all of these features could easily be present in any ...

Amazon’s AI-Powered Van Inspections Give It a Powerful New Data Feed Amazon delivery drivers at hundreds of sites around the world will be asked to drive through camera-studded archways that log ...

Amazon’s largest delivery competitors, UPS, FedEx and DHL all declined to say if they’ve considered using AI-powered driver monitoring systems. FedEx has worked with Lytx before, but declined ...

A man paralyzed in a crash involving an Amazon van is suing the tech giant, Bloomberg reported. Amazon says it isn't liable for delivery crashes because it doesn't directly employ the drivers.

Amazon’s Kevin Lennox shows off the Rivian electric delivery van. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Lennox called the screens a huge improvement over other delivery vehicles on the market.

Factoring in the time needed to load and gas up his white van, which sometimes sports a magnetized Amazon logo on the back door, Echeverria has to hit one home every two minutes, on average ...

But the Rivian van was built with this use case in mind, which the Amazon driver said should minimize the odds of rear-door breakdowns. "They're going to be designed exactly for what we do," the ...