avoid tolls jersey to Manhattan. How?

I've done what I think the OP wanted i.e. leave New Jersey for Staten Island via 278 and the Goethals, you can easily do it from northbound 1/9 and go east on I 278, the way from the north isn't quite as easy, traffic circle to 439 eastbound and you get on at the left lanes of the bridge and could have a hard time getting into the right lane to cross it. I did that once, too, but I usually pay 1 toll from the New Jersey Turnpike at exit 13 and get on 278 east that way.

 

The Pulasky Skyway (1/9) is not for trucks, but truck 1/9 goes through Kearney. Just another of the joys of running out there. There are 2 truck stops in Kearney, 1 with a CAT Scale, and the other with a scale.

 

It all kind of runs together, I get out to the fringe of the metro, deliver in Mountainside then had to go back there to drop at a hole along truck 1/9 in a place called North Bergen, then back to Hillside to load, but got to sit all night for the reload.

There's a place in Elizabeth where you have to kind of blind side in off the street, just plain nasty. A prime driver took 20 minutes to get it in the dock, and it wasn't all his fault, but still, not impressive.

I have been to Redhook just once, not a fun place, either.