I looked into it. You “invest” 10 grand, you lease delivery trucks, hire workers you buy their uniforms, but it’s really not a franchise you own as I understand it. They give you routes. The goal is 10 trucks, 100 drivers, per owner and your “potential earnings” could be 300 grand. Doesn’t say anything about pay, fuel costs, etc.
Will Amazon do E-verify or will Amazon allow illegal alien drivers?
/sarc —- or, since it’s Amazon, maybe not sarcasm
The whole thing is kinda...strange. Amazon's effectively making a delivery workforce wearing their uniforms, their logo’d delivery vans, their rules, yet absolutely not their employer.
I honestly think their strict rules including benefits is going to get a very hard look (probably during the busy holiday season) by various state labor boards, and most likely, result in them being declared the actual employer.
Where will these drivers materialize from? If it were economical to do so, Amazon would cut out the middle man and do it themselves.
Looks like a pretty low return if the ‘potential’ $300k is net for an operation with over 100 employees. (With an operation that large, you’re going to need HR, Payroll, supervisors, etc. Will the leases include service, or are you going to need to log and schedule and contract for that. You can probably get buy with a part time lawyer on staff at first, but eventually you’ll need a full time lawyer. And lots and lots of insurance. The contract with Amazon is going to be one sided.
And, finally, why would you need 100 drivers for 10 trucks. I can see 20 drivers, but even if you run the trucks into the ground 24/7 you can’t use more than 5 drivers per truck, and that includes backups waiting for someone to get sick or hurt.
Sounds like FedEx Home.
earnings ain’t profit.