Shaffer: FORCED NY City!

Heck...remember the air pressure reducing switch on the dash to reduce the brake pressure to the brakes on the steers? Mainly used for wet and frozen conditions.

 

Yeah....I also remember no brakes on the steers too!

But that was back when there were no schools and drivers really knew how to drive the truck and not just sit there staring out the window and not seeing anything around them!

 

From the New York State Department of Transportation website -- (bold type mine)

And if you should have an accident in NYC with a 53' trailer, guess who's fault it will be, because they shouldn't have been there in the first place?

 

#####.....and I was planning bringing this load into NYC....



Hmmmm...maybe there's a good reason why the broker wants to pay me $30/m...........

 

I would fall all over those and beg for more all week! Heck, keep me there all week doing this and please I CAN work all 11 of those 14 hours easly! This is freaking free money and you'll still hear the call of "I don't do NYC!" and the weaker one of I don't make squat as a driver! ROFLMAO!

 

You have no choice. Just be careful or you will lose it quickly.

 

You old guys crack me up! No brakes,no maps, heck no driving school training...but you were beter than these new guys. Because why? Daddy let you drive at 8 years old right? Give it a rest.

 

I don't see what the big deal is about NYC, unless the parts I am going to aren't what you are talking about. I regularly do a stop in Brooklyn, one in Long Island city and one in the Bronx. Also do one in Happage, which isn't the city, but someone looking at an atlas might be confused and think it is if they have never been to the area before.

Really just plan a good route before you go, expect to have it take a long time, and watch your turns and clearances. Only thing I do differently is to try and get there a little earlier, since there is a big difference in traffic between a 6am delivery and one at 9am. For a first timer to the area, it might also help settle your nerves to slide in behind another truck so you can see them go under the bridges marked at clearances lower than you can make, to keep you from freaking out at every overpass.

 

I may not agree with all that the "old" drivers say.....but I do have respect for them and the knowlege they pass along. The trucks we drive today are a far cry from the rigs they learned on. In many ways the "old school" training was better then the CDL mill powerpoint two week training sessions many get today. Most of the things I learned when training were taught to me by an older driver on the road. I delivered in and around the city of Chicago for 2.5 years and once you get used to big city driving it's not so intimidating. I run Boston and Philly (and most of the NE) regularly and it is not so bad. Some days better than others. I go where the loads take me and make a decent living at it. So many drivers talk mostly about what they won't do.....

 

No because they were taught by PROFESSIONAL'S that actually knew what they were doing not some shmuck that had been behind the wheel for 6 months or even a yr or two. Bet you wouldn't have made it a week back then. I'm pretty sure that I probably wouldn't have nor would 99% of the newer drivers out here today including YOU.