Why "No East Coast"?

For us when we were OTR the problem we had was when we got sent east there was a shortage of freight coming back west.

 

....and all this is why living in Mass, I have to go all the way to Mo. in order to find a company to train with and go OTR

 

The east coast is plagued with roads too small for trucks, that are major arterials, it is not hard to get stuck playing big truck in really really tight spaces, low clearence bridges in stupid places with no warnings, street names are often unposted or poorly marked, many of the roads are in no order what so ever, your local DOT tends to be more of the boot on throat type, and dealing with NYC is a huge pain.

Little things like that.

 

My only problem with the east Coast was a lack of truck parking places. Other than that skinny streets due to it being the oldest part of the USA. Some of my runs to Upstate new York, the east peninsula of maryland, Vermont, new Hampshire and Connecticut were more relaxing than worrying about if Donner/Grapevine/Cabbage/Kingman was even open or if i had to chain up.

If you ask me the traffic in Newark, Brooklyn, Boston or DC. is no worse than Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, L.A. or Denver. Traffic is traffic, rush hour is rush hour, and at the wrong time of day in any big city the traffic can and usually will f you up. Other than that it is usually just a bunch of billy-big-riggers who won't man up and do their jobs.

 

eastern Long Island away from the Burroughs is no worse than driving in Wisconsin or Illinois. getting in there and outta there at the right time is the trick...

 

Tolls,tolls,tolls and oh yeah..... tolls.

 

People forget that alot of roads in the east were built along time ago and didn't plan for Semi's to move freight on them. I also didn't like the time it took to go. Stopping for tolls can shoot your milage down where out west most of the highways are you get on them and go. Plus the roads are newer.

 

we had drivers that only wanted to run nyc--they loved and as company driver -they were getting close to 100,000 a year doing that --and home every wekendas most of work was in the ne--lots didnt want run west anyplace--so i would jump all over those ones--bit less money but to me i found it more miles--and i hate going down the same roads to the sameplaces all the time
and at 100 grand a year--i didnt say they were driving legal--but the perks add up as well

 

Thats also one of the biggest problems with running the north east corridor its really hard to deliver a load there and get reloaded then get out and still be legal. Then in PA you have tiny little towns 60 miles off the main vain and they gotta go borrow a fork lift to unload you. If you run NJ,Del,MD not so bad but like I said in earlier post its the tolls that really suck and DOT is everywhere side roads,parking lots,trees you name it.