Learning NY city roads

You from Freeport?!? Man it's a small world. I used to work there!!

 

Look DOT and NYPD aren't going to hassle you about a 53' trailer unless your involved in a traffic accident. I used to run for Schneider out PA on the Proctor and Gamble account to NYC everyday with a century class freightliner and 53' van. I would always run the Major Degan up to Yankee stadium, get off at the w155th street bridge to Manhattan and run over to Broadway and up to the GWB when the Cross Bronx got backed up. Never got ticketed.

 

BTW... Anyone refrencing the NY State DOT document at https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2012%20trk%20access.pdf please be aware that many of the truck routes in this document reference "Caldor" as a landmark. Caldor was a discount department store sort of like a WalMart, that went bankrupt in 1995 and ceased operations in 1999. I can't beleive that NYS DOT is still referencing a store that does not exist 13 years after they have closed ecspecially since the document was updated in January 2012! Nothing like the efficient use of my tax dollars.

 

Yes sir. South side of town. You know where Atlantic Nursery is? One block south on Nassau Avenue. That is where I lived for 29 years. Worked at a bunch of trash companies, Mobile mini/storage/Gibney. Yes it is a small world!

 

So if the above link is correct then all 53' are still illegal anywhere in NYC other than I-95 from Westchchester County over the Throgs Neck Bridge to the Clearview Expwy to the LIE. This would mean you could not take the BQE or even cross into Staten Island, nor take the Cross Bronx to the Throgs Neck. So for anyone routed to Long Island in a 53 footer, this would mean extra miles because you have to run the Tappan Zee bridge to the Cross Westchester Expwy to get to I-95. Talk about the long way around

 

Yeah but that won't happen. Just look at the GWB at morning rush on the Jersey side. Lots of 53' trailers going up state to Conn. and what not. Lots going to LI and the burrows too. Again, even though its illegal, they won't bother you about it because EVERYONE is pulling them now.

 

I was running local in NYC last summer, and while it is legal to run 53' on all interstates, it is illegal to run into the boroughs with them, they where writing drivers last fall, especially in Manhatten. I am back pullung a 48' flat but even they are technically not legal unless driving a daycab, they are still overlength with a sleeper, but I have never heard of anyone being cited with a 48. You can get an oversize permit for bringing 53's into the city, but I don't know anyone that has done that. I delivered on Coney Island a couple weeks ago and there was a 53' Atlas van on the job site dropping refurbished horses for the carousell there.

 

OH MAN! The rich part of town!! LOL. You might have seen me around then; I worked around that area from 2000 to 2002

 

I haven't read the entire thread, so I don't know if its been mentioned, but Hagstrom has a great street atlas New York City 5 Borough...

Well worth the $15 investment if you run there.