In Your Opionion Which Is Better??

For me I prefer the South. Southeast or Southwest. Northwest has some rough Terrain Northeast has some rough traffic, tight roads, and unpleasant Dock Workers. Southeast and Southwest have wide open roads with easy miles and easy money. Midwest for me is average better than the North worse than the South.

 

Depends on the money. I don't see any numbers with dollar signs in your post.

 

West 11 is the best, imho no reason to go east anymore.

 

Are you kidding?

Stay west young man. YOU DO NOT want the NE or east coast. Trust me on this.

The problems exponetially increase, threat levels increase, accident potential increases, hard braking increases, money money and more money sick of money... (Tolls etc) every little town gaurded by Mr Bear with a big camera and a desire to toss you into the jailhouse until Monday. Maybe.

Stop lights choked with cameras for enforcement. Entire cities surrounded by more cameras also for enforcement. DC will be a eye opener to you. You have not known aggression on a mass scale. Or a Govt Presidental, or some such convoys BLAZING through YOU. If you don't move right quick, they will run you over. Those senate buses two or three of them plus a bunch of black SUV's in particular. You are in the way tumbleweed.

And the scales... Some are weigh in motion, if you are off by one mph either way your chances of inspection or platform checking of your axles etc just went up.

I can go on. Arkansas is my home now. If my opinion is between the west and east expressed in blood pressure, It's very low out here.

And parking worst of all. Some nights there is NO PARKING FOR SEMIS ANYWHERE BETWEEN PHILLY AND KNOXVILLE. (MAybe....) you might have to push on to Memphis to get parked and not be bothered to move along.

 

Me too!

 

All though, Every driver needs to experience some places, like Hunts Point Market. Not like it was but I'm sure its still just a ton of fun, We (my Dad and I) used to take the lock off the trailer and replace it with a number 8 hardened nut and bolt so they could not get in the trailer with bolt cutters while we were waiting to unload, just tons of fun, or following a horse drawn carriage in Amish country.

 

Honestly YOU want the worse situations you can have in order to learn how to drive the truck.

Take what ever comes along, because it doesn't matter much unless you don't want to learn.

 

In jersey city truckstop off 15C (The most dangerous in the Nation...) people were learning to use battery saws to buzz through insulations and walls to grab whatever is inside. ZZZZZZZ and your electronic CPU's are all gone while you snore. They actually wait until you are snoring in that sleeper before trying it.

 

I don't go east unless they pay good, it's more stress on you

 

I agree Hunts Point should be tried at least once by all drivers in the industry. It's not as bad as it was once. Provided it's not spring or summer time. But you better be in order coming out. DOT is local there. One of the things about Hunts is pretty important to remember. If your dispatcher or broker says that the load in your trailer for more than one customer there is especially packed (Layer and count per layer per pallet) for order do not let anyone else touch it. The first shipper will try to BS you and then go touching someone elses stuff in your trailer and you end up paying and paying and paying unnecessarily. Take care of the first stop and pull away from the dock with him in it if necessary close one door and tell him out now or he is getting ride to other side of Hunts. He'll get out. Or walk back his choice.

The Amish horses, I remember them. We actually have a small sect a few hours east of where i am in Arkansas after a few came down to buy cheap farm land to make a go of it. Anyhow in PA when we come up on a Buggie with horse, we would lumber along quietly with no power on the engine or noise for a few miles. When there is a stretch long enough to make a legal pass on that wagon we would go ahead and slide by quietly on the left. Generally the horse knows whats up and as long everything is good it will maintain it's pace. You are not the first truck to pass it.

The rest of the stuff about the east coast. I'll just leave it here. It's not a very good place to be sometimes with a big truck. Or any vehicle. Since I grew up there, I don't know any better. I actually prefer to be either south or west or both. Excepting California of course.