Amazon delivery companies routinely tell drivers to bypass safety inspections
Summary
CNBC spoke to 10 current and former Amazon delivery drivers in Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Texas who discovered their vans had issues ranging from jammed doors and tires with little to no tread to busted backup cameras and broken mirrors. "Theyd tell us, just make sure everythings great and go," said Chastity Cook, who quit working for an Amazon delivery company in Illinois earlier this year. Before stepping down as CEO, Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos pledged to make safety and employee satisfaction a greater focus at the company. Amazon in February rolled out AI-enabled cameras in its delivery vans that are designed to detect safety infractions and, for years, it has used an app called Mentor to track employees driving behavior. Under the pressure of getting packages to Amazons 200 million-plus Prime members, drivers are increasingly speaking out about working conditions, including claims that workers routinely urinate in bottles and are pushed into dangerous situations while on the road.