What do you consider the least truck friendly area of the country?

Did it with an empty flatbed once. From delivery at Oakland thru downtown to cross on the Golden Gate.

All that trouble and fogged over.

Rest of the drive to Eureka was great.

 

I will agree to your terms, but only if you give us Florida back.

 

Absolutely 100% agree. The Northest region is far and away the most anti – trucking region to run.

 

Any of the New England states

 

What he meant, in a less arrogant manner (and from a New Englander myself) - if you can drive up here, you should be able to drive just about anywhere.

That said, 22 years a Vermonter & 12 a Mainer, Mass-holes are a breed of their own. Nobody likes 'em.

 

The only good thing about Mass is the feeling you get leaving it headed for Maine.

 

We run the daylights out of the northeast. Agree with everything that yall have said thus far. Since they finished the car truck split on the NJTPK I find it much less stressful to run that to NYC, just plan that toll cost, you can save a good bit on toll when you come back south if you hop off at exit 7 and take 295 down to the Delaware Memorial Bridge and head on to 95S. Current rate is a few cents shy of $43 for the turnpike end to end. Bouncing off at exit 7 will save about $11 and take you to exactly the same place if you had stayed on the turnpike. *prices are for off peak times w EZ pass for 5 axle*

I think the key to the NE region is PLANNING. Planning around your delivery time and planning your stops especially the end of your day. We have a run that goes to Rocky Hill, CT from Southern DE. It leaves at 4pm, delivers at 1am (if traffic is light you will be there 2 hours early, but the cushion is built in for whatever may come along) and you can turn and burn back thru NYC and make it back to around Bordentown NJ (same town as mentioned Exit 7 above) before your hours are out. The north east is undoubtedly the most frustrating part of the USA to operate a motor vehicle, be it truck or personal car.

 

Anywhere east of the Mississippi River

 

The problems start about fifty miles east of IH35. Where the precipitation allows settlement.

Except Denver - Albuquerque, no one lives in the expanse from there to IH5.

East of the river things just get tighter.

Have a look at a night time satellite photo of the US.

 

NYC and Long Island offer absolutely no truck services despite it being a huge 120 mile island. Not a single truck stop, just one crappy parking area with a port-a-john halfway through Suffolk County on 495 that supports a dozen trucks or so and several Walmarts that are nice enough to still allow truck parking. Super low speed limits and plenty of tight pothole filled roads like the rest of the northeast. Lots of you are whining about NJ but at least there you have several truck stops on 78/80/Turnpike and the service plazas as well for parking/fueling and a much faster speed limit. Same goes for CT and MA. As someone who was born and raised there Long Island and NYC are just a whole different level of suck. So happy I don't live anywhere near the northeast these days.