Old Ancient Truck Stop in Manhattan

Some urban locales just ain't for the faint of heart

 

that doesn't sound even like a truck stop that sounds more like the hunts market staging area...
all the truck stops I remember where on the Jersey side your Kearney and Elizabeth.
especially Rubes

 

that's the imfamous New York produce market in the Bronx..
places where people hate having to go some refuse flat..
just Google hunts point market the Bronx

 

There was something like that in the Hunt's Point produce market. The only thing I miss about that place is Chinese food from Xin Ya.

 

Hunts Point produce market is just across the GW... 895 and 278 in the Bronx. Off Halleck and Spofford.

 

Are you maybe talking about the old Jersey City truck stop? I don't know if it's still there, but that one seems to me was a two or three story brick building and really ####ty area.

 

In ancient times railroads brought everything to large yards each side of NYC. Hunts Point is on the east end, they became a MAJOR MAJOR food market. Imagine hundreds coming from the city to buy what they need for their shops today.

Every night I would say a goodly number of trucks go there to that place.

I used to carry butter from SW baltimore Shedds, (Country Crock original tubs) full floor loads loaded down and lumped off. And later we brought everything else to that city.

The closest to your Texas area would be the south Dallas Produce Market. I don't think they are active much today. I don't deliver there anymore.

We would park in a semi circle around the fence inside Hunts. We also paid a gate toll, something like 25 dollars back in the 80's I don't even recall what it was in 2000. I do recall the differences between both eras. Night and day. But the Market recievers are still dirty as always. If you look like a tenderfoot yokel they will take you for whatever cash you got on you.

On your Judgment in the golden gates above, if you are condemned as a trucker, you don't go to hell. You get sent to Hunts.