Whats better for a Newb... Western 11 or East Coast Furniture runs?

I know plenty about the Pennsylvania back-roads, a buddy of mine does heavy haul in Pennsylvania and West Virginia hauling to the oilfields and coal-mines. I never suggested that the East didn't have steep or difficult grades, did I? My post was directed at the East Coast making the rest of the country looking like "childs play". And the big-city argument fails to hold water, as well. Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, the Bay Area? Contrary to popular belief, we have big cities out West, as well. Los Angeles and San Francisco are rated as having worse traffic than New York, and Austin, Texas and Seattle, Washington rate above Boston, Mass.

And before you tell me I need to learn to drive a truck, hook to some of the loads I have. I've been 15-ft. 10in. tall, I've been 14-ft. wide. Come tow a lowboy when you're 15-6 tall and 10-wide going down narrow and winding secondary and service mountain roads where you get down to stretches of asphalt one lane wide. Come off the mountain passes north of 100,000-pounds. You ever hooked to a load where you look in the mirrors and you don't see a thing behind you?

By the way, Red Mountain isn't just a long grade, plenty narrow and plenty winding enough to keep up with the back-road passes out East.

I'm not saying that driving in the East is easy, I never said that. But, when an East-Coaster implies there's nothing to driving out here its an outrageous claim.

 

I have done the furniture delivery,both tailgate and in home setup.
So i was lucky enough to have to find houses,apartments and stores in New York,New Jersey,Long Island,Bronx,ect....
Very high stress! I was in a Freightliner Classic XL with a 53 dry van.
I know one thing,we had trucks come home every week with something damaged or the trailer roofs peeled back.
You do REALLY learn how to back doing that region..
Good luck!
If it were my choice between the 2 i would stay West.

 

I in no way was trying to say you didnt know how to drive. However a NEWB could benefit alot more from the east coast. A newb wont be running od loads like you or running crazy mountian roads. They will pass thru on the freeway and maybe have two.turns off the exit from the shippers. The east will have the shipper smack in the middle.of a residental neighborhood. Also trip planning is a must here. We dont have many truck stops and parking is.a night mare.

So i was not implying the west is a cakewalk. However for a newb they would learn alot.more in the east than they would in the west. More restricted roads, more low clearences, more tight turns, less parking, less room.for.error. Now if we are talking 100k 15'6" high and 14' wide thats a challange no matter where.

 

All a newbie could learn on the east is how to be paranoid. Can you just see the newbie trying to back up because the bridge in nyc says 12'2 and it is really 13'6. What about the newbie who is in the right lane and there's a ton of cars passing on the shoulder. What about the pressure on his back driving through those crappy east coast roads. He can learn trip planing and all that without the confusion of the East Coast.

 

Trail by fire. Almost all my driving has been in the northeast and im not paranoid. Ive dealt with the mismarked bridges, crappy roads (which are all over, not just here) and the cars on the shoulder (which is legal.at certain times around boston). So why not throw them into a crazy area. You learn more by doing.

 

I love the cars running the "breakdown lane" up in boston, haha.

 

They also run the break down lane in NYC when they don't feel like waiting like all the rest. I had them come around on a get on ramp. If they can squeeze through they will. Why not put them out there you ask. Because most of these places will fire you if you get in an accident even if it wasn't your fault. They should learn how to drive around normal people 1st b4 they go into the crazy East coast.

 

Seems everyone likes comparing apples to oranges still. I myself have seen my fair share of newbs make a mistake on some of the passes out west that costed them their lives. East coast is kaotic, but thanks to it, theres not a single dock nowadays that I cant get into. But, like I said...its comparing apples to oranges. Learning with zero experience even out west can be a major mistake. Takes time to figure things out both places. Be safe out there driver.