Truck info for NYC.

what do they call it now! I probably don't want to know...

 

Hugh L Carey Tunnel.

To me, it's still Battery Tunnel. Same as the Triborough.

There's a site I found that listed NYC's STAA routes, there's not many. Interstates 95, 278, 495, 295, 695, and 87. The other expressways technically aren't, which includes the West Shore Expressway (NY440). I took it once and didn't get caught, but, I know now that it's not for 53s. And as said, when NYC or NYS wants to get into tickets, they will lock down the STAA 1-mile requirement and get you for being overlength.

 

How so? NYC has the worst of everything. Traffic, low bridges, endless toll roads, etc.

 

Well there's a good one on me ..... I'll suck in my gut and square my shoulders and freely admit that I had NO idea that the name had changed !! When did that happen ? Why and who I get ....

 

believe it or not, the traffic actually moves there. Unlike L.A., where it comes to a complete stand still. And, unlike California, people actually know how to drive a little better than they do in California. You don't find the overloaded chevy mini-vans, that list to the left or right, merging onto the freeways at 15 mph. Or, heading down the fastlane going 40 mph when the traffic is flowing at 65+...

 

At least they re-named the Battery Tunnel after a guy who died on 9/11 trying to help people, and not a Dead Liberal Senator for Life like another bridge in the city.

As far as the 53' thing goes. I'm probably just lucky. the 48' thing IS on the books but 90% of the cops don't enforce it. Just the DOT squad (and/or probably the Highway One unit). So probably one day a year they come down all hard on ALL trucks for violating a rule they NEVER enforce. And the average driver's excuse is gonna be, "but officer, I do this all the time and nobody ever said anything about it!"

Which to the jackboots at Highway One is equal to: "Yes officer, not only am I guilty, but I am admitting to doing this multiple times, and I have no idea that Miranda rights apply to me on a routine traffic stop. Please take my money and allow me to sponsor both the Bloomburg re-election campaign, and the Policemen' ball."

The rumor around the Apple is that UPS & FedEx are both into the Parking Authority for about a half mil a year. Every so often they send an attorney downtown and he says, "this is how much we owe,,,, and THIS is how much we pay. Take it or have every buisness in town WALK to the distrbution hub in Newark."

 

That's exactly right, nighthunter1981!
It startles all non-native truckers passing through the Big Apple. Unfortunately this only confuse and cause less experienced drivers to make the wrong decisions, ignoring low bridge warnings in NYC that are NOT high enough for a 13.6.

As for the Parkways: None - I repeat NONE - accomodate semis or straight trucks in New York State. When you see a sign with "parkway" in it, fudgetaboutit. Use the expressways instead. And never EVER use the FDR on the East Side of Manhattan. I have seen plenty of trucks getting "buried" under the various overpasses coming off the GW. Use Broadway, or one of the other Avenues (except 5th) in Manhattan instead.

Once met a Scottish born trucker who said:
Ain't you Americans funny. You park in the driveways and drive in the parkways....

(4 tears trucking semis in the tristate area, in the five boroughs of NYC, and some OTR).

 

You forgot of rough roads in NYC. Once when I was driving center line in a curve my empty trailer jumped on the left line.
But I know a better place to practice hard trucking - tail of the dragon - its US129 in Tennessee

 

Marlboro I've seen pictures of that road after my brother did it on his Harley. I wouldn't want to do it in a rig.

 

Just hit a pothole myself on my bike across the Hudson in Jersey City. It destroyed both rims and tires. Nearly knocked me down...
Many potholes in the whole tristate area are deep and treacherous.
The infrastructure as such is getting worse and worse.
Out taxpayer money are not spend on the roads, that's for sure.