Day: 11 September 2025

Top 14 Tips for Amazon Flex drivers

Top 14 tips for Amazon Flex drivers (UK). Map of Amazon Flex depots. Amazon Flex contract for drivers.

Christmas is approaching and it is the season to be on Amazon looking to take advantage of lightening deals and let someone else take the strain of delivering your freshly ordered goods to you.

They say that in the logistics business, the last few miles of delivery are the most expensive.

Amazon pays drivers from it’s own logistics department to complete deliveries that final few miles.

This may be through their paid or contracted fleet, or it may be from the self employed gig delivery workers otherwise known as ‘Amazon Flex‘.

Amazon Flex

I took part in the Amazon Flex program for nearly 7 years, from 2017 to 2023.

Over that time, the program changed in some respects. A lot of things have stayed the same. Hopefully, a lot of these tips will remain valid if you decide it’s something you want to do.

This is my top 14 tips for Amazon Flex Drivers.

In my experience, these are the tips that are going to make you a better driver.

1- Check your insurance | 2- Use the technology | 3- Always check the flex app’s routes | 4- Amazon flex automated tapping machines | 5- Update your amazon flex app | 6- Parking tickets when delivering for Amazon flex and how to avoid them | 7- Don’t forget the essentials | 8- Using a storage box | 9- Record your mileages for HMRC | 10- Dealing with payment and other Amazon Flex problems | 11- Non deliverable and returned parcels 12- Map of Amazon Flex depots UK | 13- Maximum number of hours or days delivering for Amazon flex in one week | 14- Loading your car for Amazon Flex | 15 – Amazon flex mystery shopper test

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Cycling – Transfagarasan Highway

A day of mountains, rain and bears.

Carpathian Mountains
Carpathian Mountains

The Transfagarasan highway crosses the Carpathian Mountains. It’s not always open due to its susceptibility to weather conditions. In fact, it doesn’t usually open until July. Even when I went up, it only opened in both directions at 11am. Until then, the police would only let traffic through intermittently, and it was closed overnight. Obviously, they’ve had a lot of problems with loss of life here in the past.

As we know, and as I’ve said before, the weather changes quick in the mountains.

Rain

I can’t say I wasn’t expecting rain. Cycling up to my last homestay, I could see the clouds and hear the rumble of thunder from the clouds sitting atop the hills. That rumbling and the clouds rested where it was. Didn’t move onto the plains where I was cycling along.

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