Driving experience needed before a CDL

I agree if you compare trucking to lets say office work, but one would say its the same when you bring into account the driver facing cameras installed in current company vehicles.

 

Possibly, I have never dealt with them, and thankfully will never have too. lol
If I did, the office personal would not like it. lol

 

in my opinion, you need to be skilled at navigating city traffic in a 4 wheeler before learning to drive a truck

 

Trip planning into say Hunts Point NYC for those who have never been has never been easier. What with Google Maps and curb side views etc.

In my time I carried about 200 dollars worth of ADS maps of all 5 boroughts of NYC in a briefcase down to the alley level detail of directions provided in arrows and some low clearances within that data. It took me usually a couple of hours to plan a trip INTO and OUT of NYC before it's time to actually leave Phillpsburg 76 in NJ and go.

The upperlevel and lower level for the GWB was a open question in those days and a very important factor you wont know about until about 8 miles and closing when the CB radio tells you in no uncertain terms which level is gridlocked.

9-11 puts paid to that truck on lower levels permanently. What most people don't know is that the Lower Level is not original to the GWB, it's actually bolted onto the original upper deck construct as a add on. Which is why it would be so easy to destroy with a terrorist and his truck bomb. You can be assured one of those are not going to get anywhere near it anytime soon.

The problem still stands of actually getting to point B inside NYC from that bridge. Again with the modern internet support etc there is no reason that you cannot mentally understand where you are going because to a certain point you have been there. I remember one shipper deep inside Manhattan near the LIE where you would have to drop your airride bags in order to get the trailer down into the underground ramp that goes to their dock. (I define anything that goes into a internal building dock as underground... below street level) and the outside manuvering that will have to happen in order to get a 53 foot trailer into the place reminds me of this cartoon...