Learning NY city roads

I have one of the Hagstrom, but I usually use the free ones you can get from NYC, they have all the through and local truck routes marked along with low clearances and handy stuff like that.

 

@rizrob: You may want to look up some of the local CDL schools in the NYC area and maybe see if you can have an instructor take you out for a 2 hour lesson in the city all the while letting the instructor do a mind dump. It would be worth the cost of the lesson in ticket and fine avoidance.

 

it's not just NYC, it's the whole North East... you're in Mantua, take a ride through Greys Ferry sometime... there are some tough turns there in Philly too, plus you have Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth... lots of fun up there.

PS I used to live in Woodbury.

 

That's the deal with my company... hire nationwide and most detest the Northeast. To be honest it is not my favorite area to run either. Give me the Southwest any day... I have had worse backing scenarios in LA and that traffic can be a regular PITA... but the weather is a hell of a lot better.

 

I was born and raised in the country, my hometown was so small it didn't have a single traffic light. In my first week after I got off my trainer's truck I was sent to Ontario. That was a big eye opener for me! My second week I was sent to Long Island, 2 pickups in Long Island City and another pickup in Newark. It took me from 8:00 in the morning till 4:00 in the afternoon to get back out of Long Island. I still have nightmares about that day, at one point I was driving down a road lost and confused and all I wanted to do was stop and bawl my eyes out. I eventually made it out thanks to a helpfull dumptruck driver

 

We take 53' vans into the boroughs and pick up / deliver in Manhattan from time to time as well. Never been hassled.