Amazon Delivery Route (DSP)

How these numbers were built: driver wages come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS, Light Truck Drivers, SOC 53-3033); industry size and establishment counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns and SUSB for NAICS 492110, Couriers and Express Delivery Services); the operating structure, the per-van rate concept, the vans, and the program standards come from the Amazon Delivery Service Partner program; financing terms come from the SBA; and firm survival comes from the Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics. The owner cash flow band and resale multiples come from a DSP route broker (Route Consultant), and the cost lines by category, vans and insurance from a DSP bookkeeping firm (Steph’s Books); revenue per van comes from a 25-route DSP listed for sale at $3.37M a year, lifted for Amazon’s 2025 driver-pay funding (Chain Store Age), and driver labor from Amazon’s ~$23 an hour average on a 10-hour route plus payroll taxes and benefits; Amazon’s fixed monthly van payment and the lease it pays for both appear, as revenue and as cost. The plan ramps a new station to its full van count over three months, because Amazon’s DSP brochure has new owners start with five vans in the first week, add routes over the first couple of months and run 20 plus vans after the first quarter; driver wages, van payments, fuel, maintenance and insurance grow with the vans, while dispatch and admin are paid in full from the start. Every source below links to the underlying material so you can check any figure yourself. These are starting assumptions; the moment you enter a real operation’s van count, route rate, and labor costs, your numbers should replace ours. The model is intentionally thin, because the business is; figures are current as of 2025-2026 and refreshed as the sources update.

Driver wage figures are grounded in BLS OEWS data for light truck drivers (SOC 53-3033) cited in this file. Per-van revenue, cost-ratio splits, turnover, and utilization figures reflect general Amazon DSP program structure and industry commentary rather than an audited financial-benchmark dataset (the DSP program does not publish standardized cost benchmarks); treat these as informed industry-typical estimates and verify against a real station P&L, ideally including the current per-van rate and actual turnover. The owner cash flow band follows a DSP route broker’s average operating profit (about 13%) and a DSP bookkeeper’s net margin targets (5% to 12% after the owner is paid). Route revenue per van follows a 25-route DSP listed at $3.37M a year, and driver labor follows Amazon’s published average of about $23 an hour; cost bands per van (fuel, maintenance, insurance) come from a DSP bookkeeping firm.