Going to redhook brooklyn any pointers

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  1. Sep 19, 2008 #1
    "LOST SOUL"

    "LOST SOUL" Bobtail Member

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    ME AND ANOTHER DRIVER ARE ENROUTE WITH FLATBEDS TO PICK UP SOME FARM IMPLEMENTS FOR EXPORT OVERSEAS AND HAVE TO GET THEM TO THE REDHOOK MARINE TERMINAL TO BE LOADED ON A FREIGHTER AND I WAS WONDERING IF ANYBODY HAD SOME GOOD STEP BY STEP TURN BY TURN DIRECTIONS TO MAKE THE RUN AS SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE

    I WAS THERE ONCE A FEW YEARS AGO WITH AN OLDER DRIVER IT WAS BOTH OUR FIRST TIME AND FOR ALL OUR GOOD INTENT WE WERE ON JERSEY TURNPIKE AT 4 AM BUT BETWEEN GETING LOST AND NO TRUCK ROUTES N THE TRAFFIC WE STILL DID NOT REACH REDHOOK TILL BOUT 9 AM AND DONT SAY GPS AS WE LEARNED THE LAST TIME GARMIN IS USELESS OUT THERE CAUSE IT IS JUST SO SCREWED UP OUT EAST

    WILL BE GOING IN ON THE GOWANUS EXPWY I-278 NEED EXIT # AND TURN BY TURN FROM THE STREET I WOULD BE MIGHTY GRATEFUL:biggrin_25524:
     
    "LOST SOUL", Sep 19, 2008
    "LOST SOUL", Sep 19, 2008
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  3. Sep 19, 2008 #2
    WiseOne

    WiseOne Inactive contact bullhaulerswife

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    I don't have directions to there, but I just wanted to say better you than me. I used to go into the Bronx one to twice a week with apples from Washington. Don't EVER want to go back up there again to be sure. Someone will get you some directions, I am sure...many drivers in here from the northeast. Be careful and good luck.

    PS, please don't use ALL CAPS as it looks bad and people think of ALL CAPS as "screaming."

    :)
     
    WiseOne, Sep 19, 2008
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  4. Sep 19, 2008 #3
    lv gn

    lv gn Heavy Load Member

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    15 yrs. ago i used to pick up containers from there. it was a very slow moving place. but a $20.00 bill given to the right person got you in and out in less than an hour!
     
    lv gn, Sep 19, 2008
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  5. Sep 19, 2008 #4
    Native Dancer

    Native Dancer Heavy Load Member

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    I delivered there a few years ago. I don't remember how I got there. I went in in the evening and parked there overnight with some other trucks. No problems but things may have changed.
     
    Native Dancer, Sep 19, 2008
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  7. Sep 19, 2008 #5
    MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    Here's one suggeston for visiting Redhook. Wear a flak jacket, you may need it.
     
    MACK E-6, Sep 19, 2008
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  8. Sep 19, 2008 #6
    24valve puller

    24valve puller Medium Load Member

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    For what? There is nothing wrong with that area. I've been all over NYC and slept about everywhere traffic/police would allow me to and have never had anything close to what you could call a problem. I believe the exit is Hamilton ave. exit #26 from the south, get off there come down the ramp and in about 1/3rd of a mile you run into there drive. From the north get off at columbia st. exit #27 and make a left, go to either Degraw or sackett and make a right, take that to van brunt st. make a left and watch for their entrance. If you miss it you will go around the block and try it again. The place when I was there about 2 months ago was not very busy, the guard is a piece of work at the van brunt st. entrance!!! Just try to get there in the middle of the night so traffic will be light. When you come out and if you want to go back out the top there is a entrance for 278 E off Hamilton rd that says its only 12'6, it must be at least 13'6 a swift truck ahead of me made it and my 12'10 stacks didn't hit anything so don't worry about it. I almost forgot MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LOADING OR UNLOADING FEE TAKEN CARE OF. It is expensive and I don't think they take plastic, it cost $1100 for them to take the 53k lb crate off my trailer
     
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    24valve puller, Sep 19, 2008
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    AfterShock Thanks this.
  9. Sep 22, 2008 #7
    MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    I never been there, but I heard Redhook was like a war zone though...
     
    MACK E-6, Sep 22, 2008
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