why do companies pay extra for newyork and northeast?

Because they recognize the danger and risk involved with sending someone unfamiliar with the place .
It's a carrot that most of us have learned the hard way not to go after .
Like everything follow the money but don't let it bring you there unless your familiar with it and dont mind the hassle..., Of making a dive bomb onto the interstate from an imaginary acceleration lane, It amazed me when i was there how many people would just walk in front of the truck while it was in motion.
Then again dc and mass traffic can be worse so who knows.

 

I wouldn't work for a company that required me to go into NYC.
My last trip into there was a load of roof air conditioners on a flatbed. As directed, the crane operator was there waiting for me. Some union thugs blocked him because he wasn't a union crane operator & I wasn't a union driver. The union thugs spotted some bags of mulch stacked in the medium where workers were sprucing up the streets. This took priority over the air conditioners, so while they were filling their car trunks with bags of mulch, we unloaded the air conditioners, but this caused me to get stuck in rush hour traffic trying to get back to civilization. Never again.

 

Traffic. You can not make the miles that you would in other parts of the country due to it so companies pay extra to try and make up for it. Myself after having driven the North East for years had enough and moved south. My last company offered me and extra $100 to deliver onto the Island and I turned it down.

 

because NY and the northeast sucks out loud, I grew up here and can't wait too leave..

 

in my opinion its the traffic, lots of low bridges and tolls, no truck routes, and bridges that say their low and arent if a driver doesnt know his or her way around the stress level is thru the roof, when i got my licesens i got my experience driving in nj and nyc its wasnt fun but it doesnt bother me now

 

Try hauling heavy equipment through that section of the North East. I hate going into Ny NJ area with my rig. Before Sandy it was nightmare,now it seems worse. Also if your hauling for Fema like I am at the moment watch where you park at nite. People are stealing gas from parked trucks.

 

It is simple market forces that cause carriers to pay a premium for running in and out of NYC and such places. Fewer drivers want to do it, so the carriers have to dangle a carrot to get them to do it. If I was in a company truck, it might be tolerable now and then. But since I pay the bills on my truck, it will never go to the NE. Only if freight dies off in the middle of the country, which is not going to happen any time soon. Been there, done that, got the worn out shirt.

 

I had to have an escort once to get in and out and had to unload in the middle of the street and the people would try to run over the fork lift. first and last time I went. Told my DM you send me I park the truck! He never did it again.

 

Some companies advertise an extra $100 for going to NYC. Still not worth all the headaches and down time mentioned in previous posts.

 

Because extreme hi traffic volume 24 seven , fast pace in very tight and dangerous places. nothing about northeast states was built to accomidate 18 wheelers. All that on top of very high crime areas. If you can avoid going there, youll be better off.