Thank you. Yes, I do live in the NJ/NY metro area. But I'm sure you realize that what you experience in any metropolitan area when driving TT on the usual truck routes is not an accurate indication of what the area has to offer. I made many trips to your area back 40 or so years ago when I was a road driver for the company we both worked for back then. My opinion of that area based on those trips was quite negative but yet I realize I wasn't getting a true indication of the place. Places we go with TT's aren't usually the most desirable in any area.
PS - Your comments didn't get under my skin. Selfish left lane hogs get under my skin.
Well,....Maybe I was a little harsh on the Big Apple area. Don't forget I was running NYC in the Beame/Koch/Dinkins era.........The same time they made the "Escape From New York" movie/documentary......
I worked for a window manufacturer in the early '80's where I was in downtown Manhattan twice a week,....curbside deliveries at jobsites......Academy of Music and such......Got some....peculiar tales to tell there.....
Hauled cars into downtown, too.........My first trip, I found out all about the..."real" height of the low underpass signs......
Only got mugged once,........and that was due to the crack addicts finding out about the low underpass signs and how they could be ...."moved"...to direct an unsuspecting truck driver into a......"bad"..area...
Had my windshield "washed" a couple of times......
But,....in all fairness, I could honestly say it's a....fascinating ...area. I never turned down a load going that way......
And,....in the spirit of fairness,........Western Penna. is really no beauty spot. It's only been in the last decade that mine drainage, and bright orange and bright blue streams and rivers have started to ...hold fish again. There's abandoned factories and mine sites all through the woods........
I live just north of Fayette County,...."Fayette-Nam",...known by the denizens....One of the top(?) Five Poorest Counties in America. Deer poaching to feed your family is still an...."occupation"....there.
And,....As a city driver for ABF,.......I've delivered barrels of sugar, and boxes of yeast to....junkyards, with guys with their hatbrims pulled down over their eyes.....
In retrospect,....I'll lay off calling NYC Metro area bad.......At least the street grid is....mostly square.....Unlike, say....Pittsburgh.....where every intersection is at odd angles and elevations......
We have daily news reports of trucks pulling lines down,..trying to make turns in the city......
Not to mention 10,000 bridges, tunnels, odd ledges, curious "holes" that are part of the Interstate System,.....and steep hillside staircases,...that the GPS lists as...."streets".......
(....and an incline or two,....or three...)....
......all in various states of...disrepair......
Yeah,.....Maybe my calling the NYC Metro area bad,....was a case of the "pot calling the kettle black".....