Why "No East Coast"?

If you can time it right it's not too bad. If your load delivers during the rush that kind of sucks. Fuel is expensive in the Northeast too! One of the biggest keys is to be prepared and have your route planned out! Slow down instead of passing your exits and turns. This is what will put you in a bad mood!

 

Plus in the older cities like New York, Philly, Boston etc the docks and alleys were built for trailers smaller than 48 feet, not a 53 footer.

 

been in a couple of places that were built for horses and wagons--the one i remember was in springfield---
actually not that bad--a bit tight---i think it was the old rifle factory

 

Which larger companies stay away from making east coast runs?

 

I run I95 nightly and the worst part of driving it is how little it takes to bring it to a halt even at 2 AM. There have been major lane closures at night on 495 & 95 in Va that have created massive back ups this summer - I'm now very familiar with 301 and route 1..haha..

 

When I first started driving it was out of Jacksonville Fl running up into 6 states. We never stopped with team driving and we hardly ever got on any interstates. Our drops were just way too far off the beaten path. But as craszy as I was (or we were) the truck pretty much stayed at the same speed. 70-75mph. no matter what road we were on. Of course we were running night and of course we would have to slow down for towns. But back then nobody bothered us ,in fact I had a LEO tell me on the CB that my BirdDog was broke. He told me he had me at 72mph before I slamed the truck down to 55mph. We had just dropped the thing the day before.

Years later I got stationed in southern MD and on the weekends my wife and I would travel up to Kearny NJ to see her Sister. All interstate at times. It was just under 300 miles and would take us 6 hours in a car.

Now it's just too populated and too many tolls. But of course there was no E-Z- pass so that makes it a little easier. Now when you get off the interstate you'd better hope you hit the right one because just following the road signs to the parkway or turnpark can get you into alot of trouble. I would much rather drive out west.

 

Anytime anywhere here. As long as my time off isn't messed with in any shape, form, or fashion were good to go. However I will always head out west when given an option. 2200? 0100? There's always a parking space for you, no where near the amount of tolls and the joy of starting your day out in a blizzard only to be running the a/c by noon. A few months ago I was running to LA and back home to Texas for a straight month and was more than pleased to go to Charlotte for a change of scenery.

 

I prefer running east...I get bored running out west all the time.

Besides all the lightweights don't want to run up there so usually the rates are pretty good going out there.

 

Exactly! My first load out solo was to Brooklyn. Been back quite a few times since too and to other parts of the city.