To the NYC Drivers…. A couple questions…

When I would travel through there I would always go through at like 2 in the morning but there would always be some Asian guy in a really old Ford van that the wheels are wobbling and ready to come off and guarantee that guy would be in the Middle Lane doing like 20 mile an hour.

And it wasn't just one guy there were always multiples of that guy on the road...

 

No secrets there...getting off the highway routes just makes it worse. The only other thing you could do is run 287 up around Rockland and Westchester County. It's not too bad now since the new Tappan Zee fully opened a couple years ago, and it's cheaper than any of the PANY/NJ bridges to get across the Hudson, especially during off peak hours. Then drop down 95 to the Throgs Neck and so on. You miss some of the crap part going that way, but it adds miles. You also can and will sit in stop and go traffic on 287 at the wrong time of day.

Usually when I drew an LI run I'd just take the Goethals and Verrazano and deal with it. I was paid by the hour hauling cans so didn't matter much to me. Coming back over I'd do Throggs Neck and GWB but taking BQE in was the most convenient from where I was starting out in NJ (Linden/Cranford area)

 

You most definitely don't want to get off on Atlantic Ave lol.

 

Whatever you do if you travel through the boroughs have a really good map book.

I can't remember exactly how I did it but one time I turned on a road that had the same name but it was such and such road instead of such-and-such Avenue I think and that was a really really really long day that ended up with me stopping in front of a low bridge and the police coming to stop traffic so that I could back into a tiny little alley littered with cars.

No tickets but wow that was a rough day.

 

NYC DOT - Trucks and Commercial Vehicles

This is an interactive map, but you can and should order some paper copies

 

I retired from NYC 4 years ago so won't give any advise that would be bad advice .
Recently paid off my truck and think I'm going to tell my carrier im done with anything east of Ohio givin the insane tolls and traffic .

 

Good. More for me.

 

Never seen the overheight truck restriction thing though, and I used to go through there all the time.

There's plenty of stuff a 13'6" trailer will hit in NYC, but not on any of the interstate routes. You're not necessarily safe from that on all on the highlighted local truck routes on the map however. Learned that the hard one way one day lol!