Can a trucking company force you to drive into NYC ?

I still haven't been to NYC yet. But I'm sure my day is coming. I'll do it, but it's not something I'm looking forward to. My biggest worry there is those bridge clearance signs being wrong. Traffic and onry driver attitudes I can handle.

But I've been to just about every major city at least half a dozen times. Every large city is going to have areas that will be hard. Then there will be other areas that are easy. It just depends on where your destination is located.

So far most of my headaches actually have come from Cincinnati. We have two pick ups there that are hard to get to. And trying to leave the city after that second pick up has a trap. The road forks off into 3 separate directions. The two wrong directions are both crazy small areas.

I haven't had very many problems in Chicago. Detroit is probably one of the easiest large cities I've driven through. Every other building is abandoned, and they have huge parking lots, easy for getting turned around.

 

I think some folks are not taking something important into consideration when speaking of NYC. I am not all that knowledgeable of the local laws there. With that said though it is my understanding the majority of the 5 NYC Boroughs RESTRICT 53" trailers. This is why over the years all those cross docks were developed all over NJ and the surrounding area. When we speak of NYC we are not speaking about hard to do, NO, we are speaking of it as IMPOSSIBLE to do legally. The carriers and the logistics companies they contract with all know this! Having to routinely enter NYC is not something a general OTR driver needs to be concerned about.

 

I've never been to the NYC area, but have spent too much time in the Los Angeles/ general So Cal area. I'll take the DFW or Atlanta area over that fustercluck any day.

 

I prefer LA to DFW, DFW is smaller, but that 35E/20/30/45/75 fustercluck is reason to ban engineers from breeding.

 

They don't call it the Dallas mixmaster for nothing!