Is it legal to take a 53' trailer into Bronx?

That's what happened to me so I did
But mostly with my eyes closed

 

This story reminds me of a situation I found myself in a few years ago in New Jersey. I got a message that the logistics company that owned the load wanted it delivered in western Long Island. To this day I have no idea if a 53 footer was/is allowed. I just told my FM after he told me I must take it in that I had been looking for a job before I found this one and I was going to our drop yard in Jersey to wait on the driver that was going to carry it in to repower. After about 5 hours and a pizza later I was told to drop the load and pickup another load headed west. I got several quailcomm messages to call the FM and one or two to call the FM's boss. I ignored all of them but posted a question where do you want this tractor dropped off after I emply released? They all dropped the phone call requests and left me alone after that.

 

I actually got my first NYC that way too, planner offered me a load recovery out of Ohio going to Brooklyn that would cap the week off perfectly, with a return to SLC at the end of a 34, and I took it without a second thought. They have since strung together similar deals, so I keep taking them.

The original driver took it by accident, then claimed to be sick. She was a bit to chipper when we swapped trailers. Point of fact she was excited and positively bubbly.

 

In my cornhusker moter lines days I used to love drivers that wouldn't go into the city and would somtimes sit at the Capri moter Lodge in little ferry nj all week shuttling trailers in and out of nyc .
All tolls paid .
250.00 nyc delivery fee plus mileage .
75.00 any extra drops .
40.00 an hour detension after 2 hrs .
Same deal if I reloaded anything in the city for them .
Was heaven and never went in and out for less than 500.00 a day .
And had a nice motel every nite .

 

I'd cut off an ear and a few fingers for that deal. Sweet.

 

Those were the days man ! To bad cml hit the skids .

 

Mine tried to route me through the lincoln tunnel. instead of the GWB.

 

There is a legend ( I think myth but cant say for sure) of a driver driving through the Lincoln tunnel. I have heard it at first being JB Hunt then Swift/MS Carrier followed by Schneider. Now it is USA Truck and the other day I heard it was a guy driving for Covenant. I'm sure other old hands have heard this too.

 

Is the myth that they made it through?

A long long time ago, the folks would take us out to Long Island. Saw, with my own two elementary school kid eyes, a truck stuck going into the tunnel on the Jersey side. Have no idea the company, probably one long gone.
This is back in the days of Shop-Rite, Howard Johnson's having great ice-cream and fried clam strips, and Fat Mike's hot dogs.

P.S. You'd always be on the lookout for those little weird carts to be running, that ran on the rail and walkway in the tunnel.