New England/New York City

Biggest probs in NE? There ain't a decent cuppa coffe up there ever since Dysarts stopped putting out real cream.

 

What about pilot don't they have the best coffee in the interstate?

 

i like the northeast because i'm from vt and when i got my cdl in 2003 the company i drove for kept me in the northeast so i pretty much know my way around,especially new jersey. cross bronx is a rough son of a gun. i've never been out west always stayed east of tennesee. so no complaints. this is why i'm going with western express,they run the northeast.

 

before the fishouses noved to hunts point unloading at the fulton market in the street with forklifts trucks fish and ppl going in 10 different directions was fun. Being from newburyport mass kids in greenland nh right beside the truck stop i welcome a northeast run. I really h8 chicago with all those interstates piling in together 55 57 80 90 94 294 ugh My wifes family lives there we stop there I park the truck in Monee and wait to be picked up

 

I love the "way back when" from a 3 year driver. I'm not knocking that you've only got 3 years, it just seemed funny to me. Like when one of my 20 something friends say they are "getting old".

As for the NE and NYC, I was petrified when I started "way back when" . I had just turned 21 and was really out on my own for the first time in my life. But I found NYC to be the easiest to get around. Just real cramped and packed. It is intimidating. Even after 16 years it's still not a place I want to go.

 

My biggest problem with the NE has nothing to do with the driving but rather where you end up. A majority of the places you take a truck out there seem to be a total crap hole. Almost every dock I've ever been to in a large city out there smells and looks like 100 years of garbage has been slowly disintegrating on the lot. I don't even need directions to the receiver, I just follow the smell out there.

Don't get me wrong, there are total crap holes everywhere, they're just more abundant in the NE. You won't ever find me turning down a NE load either. I like the miles to get there and like the fact that most drivers don't want to go there so it's easy to get.

 

Those were the days! 2 am unloading in manhattan!

 

I came from Australian traffic and when I first got here to the states was a little Leary about driving the roads, 8months in and having driven new York and all those other cities it makes a massive difference, go to my hometown of Denver and go flying through traffic, people ask aren't you worried, and you just rePly "about what? I've driven la, new York, Chicago etc, this is nothing"

 

It actually enjoy that kind of thing. It keeps you on your toes.

 

originally from upstate NY. hated NYC and the narrow roads of New England.

Pilot coffee EEEEWWWW. battery acid !!!! since they changed to that new Arabica beans. like that nasty StarYucks coffee. I don't use cream or sugar as I like the taste of coffee.