How bad is NYC really?

Ahhh....NYC, The Big Apple...although I've never seen any big apples there. I've been there a couple times, and found it to be a rather pleasant experience. Sure the traffic sucks, the roads are rough, but everyone I spoke to was very friendly and helpful. Like Joe said, the horror stories you hear come from those too scared to actually go there.

My father in law told me before I went in the first time " you need a twisted sense of humor to run up there. You'll see things you won't see anywhere else in the world. So sit bsck , relax and enjoy it." His advice served me well. Just relax and enjoy, and when you leave, you'll be thankful you don't live there.

I'd go to NYC over Baltimore/ DC any day. Never been to Chicago, looks like a circus on the map, and I have no reason to go there...

 

NYC makes driving thru Dallas like a joy ride.Ten times more traffic,twice as long to get anywhere,making turns can be challenging,low bridges everywhere,no place to turn around.NYC is not trucker friendly

 

I'm not scared of NYC I just view it as a ****hole that is the most annoying place to drive through in America. Most people who claim Pittsburgh is worse are scared if driving in the appalachian mountains.
Drivers can't handle going up and down negiotating some hills.

 

Pittsburgh is worse because you have Cindy Crosby on your hockey team...

 

Been to NYC before and the horror stories are mostly true from my experience. Also why in the hell would you prefer going to NYC over Baltimore or DC? That makes no sense whatsoever.

 

All I can say is thank God I'm able to go to any address any time of the day or night and not worry one bit about making a wrong turn. I go in, do my deal and leave. Being born and raised in the big mean city makes one ready to deal with it. My issue is when these companies send someone from off the farm down south and they get lost, usually under a bridge on a road they aren't allowed on. I'm not knocking anyone for where they come from, but these companies get what the deserve, my company also. I'm sitting in dispatch, they know exactly where I come from, they send me to California and the dude sitting next to me from Picayune Mississippi to Brooklyn. Makes no sense. I have friends that I work with here from down south that shudder at the thought of going into NYC, they have my number and I tell them to call me with any questions or insight. I rather help someone get in or out rather then hearing about one of our trailers leaving Richmond at 13'6" and coming back 12"6"

 

My company has regular deliveries in NYC but they compensate and don't send the newer drivers like me in there. I'm nervous about my first trip in but being new I'm nervous about a lot of things lol. The advice I've seen in these forums and my NYCDOT truck map will come in very handy.

 

Oddly enough, I used to deliver apples there quite regularly. Leo's Apple Sales, in the Brooklyn Terminal Market. With a 53' reefer behind a Western Star Lowmax Plenty of room.

 

Yes, Pittsburgh absolutely sucks nuts. It's like NYC except with steep hills and twisty roads. On and off ramps that are 30 feet long. Much worse than NYC, IMO.

 

I never had problems in NYC. I think it's over rated by drivers that have been preconditioned to expecting a nightmare. I'd rather drive NYC than Atlanta, Chicago or Houston.
I can't say for other companies, but the one I work for has some really nice loads that head from Kansas to Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. And usually good loads off the Island back out.