Vehicle Transport to Staten Island

Staten Island is a cake walk. As long as your not mindlessly driving around block after block. Post the address for us and someone will be able to guide you down the right path.

 

Avoid the morning and evening Rush Hour. The whole New York New Jersey area is massive congestion. I myself would try to be wherever you have to be by 6 a.m. You could arrive midday but there is still plenty of traffic and if you have to leave out at rush hour it's really congested. Arriving early morning and leaving midday is much better.

 

5am would be better. I don't know what the Goethals bridge(278) looks like anymore, I always take the Outerbridge(287 to 440) but the lanes used to be narrow. I usually get in the middle and take up both lanes, but that's just me. Definitely preplan your trip and like the other hand said, it's a cakewalk.

 

Both bridges were rebuilt recently and are plenty wide.

Bigger problem is where your going in Staten Island, some neighborhoods can be tight.

Look up the NYC CMV map. Give all the routes. And unlike the other bouroghs there's no elevated rail. Only thing I'm thinking might be spots where the road is so uneven you can bottom out. I once had a delivery somewhere in the NE corner of the island, and I had no trouble getting in, but on the way out I made a wrong turn and ended up somewhere I shouldn't have been and it was a little tight for comfort, but I seem to recall there was a steep transition from one street to the next and if I'd had something low I might have bottomed out. Also the swampy roads on the west side have monster potholes.

Good luck though, it's not as horrible as people say.

 

Ive been away too long, but I agree with the 5 am or even earlier. During the day you have the entire Jersey wanting to go somewhere and 10 million in NYC wanting to move and it's a royal mess. Forget the rush hours.

Crossing the island is easy on the expressway There is nothing there for me in a reefer food truck. So it's Verazzano one way or the Gothels or outerbridge the other. I switched to the GWB because most of the food was going to Hunts Point by then if it was not going into the New England States. Eventually I stopped having loads to long island generally and no need to use Staten Island to get across. Just as well the traffic situation on the Jersey side was a bit of a battle by then.

 

Doesn't matter, you're not allowed.

 

Oh, I should clarify. 440 is NOT Korean Vet's parkway.

They both cross the Outterbridge but right after the toll they split. All trucks go to 440 (you're allowed) but if you go straight you go on Korean Vets and that's verboten.