Based on the demand for at home deliveries, retailers and truck drivers have been forced to work more than in years past. While the pandemic has crippled thousands of small businesses across the country, large retailers, like Amazon, have thrived with the demand for at home deliveries.
According to Adam Diaz, the director of organizing at the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, “Amazon is raising the quotas. Off-peak season you had drivers delivering 120-150 packages a day. Now you’re looking at drivers being asked to deliver more than 300 packages in the same amount of time.”
While delivery truck drivers have been required to accommodate higher work loads, so too have large freight drivers.
Per data acquired by Samsara, trucking fleets are driving “faster than ever”. Data analyzed from 3,676 commercial fleet customers confirm trucking fleets are busier than ever. Fleets across several industries are driving about 10% more than in 2019 with roughly 5% of more trucks on the road.
This increase in demand has led to a heavy increase in truck speeding. Speeding in excess of more than eleven miles per hour has risen 20% compared to data acquired before the pandemic began.