Easy Or Hard? Big Cities.

What cities do you consider easy or hard to navigate through?

Personally, I find St Louis to be a breeze. Kansas City can get me twisted up if I’m not really careful.

What cities do you consider easy or hard to navigate through?

Personally, I find St Louis to be a breeze. Kansas City can get me twisted up if I’m not really careful.

My least favored three are Dallas, Boston, and Buffalo, NY.

I don't do NYC any longer, so it's not on my list.

What cities do you consider easy or hard to navigate through?

Personally, I find St Louis to be a breeze. Kansas City can get me twisted up if I’m not really careful.

If I have to drive through Dallas on an east/west route, I take the I-20 instead of the I-30, even if it adds 15 miles. The I-30 goes through downtown Dallas, and has some difficult transitions, even just to stay on I-30. The I-20 goes through the southern reaches of Dallas, and is not nearly as bad. We also have a terminal off the 20, in case I need something.

My least favored three are Dallas, Boston, and Buffalo, NY.

I don't do NYC any longer, so it's not on my list.

LA is definitely the worst. There is traffic no matter what time of the day. Driving from one end to the other is 80-100 miles, and it’s not unusual to take 3-4 hours.

Funny, I don't mind LA at night. It moves and it's layer out wide. Sf and the bay area are very difficult. Seattle I hate as well. Atlanta is straight combat. We should get hazard pay for there. Don't do NYC. Not fond of little Iraq (Chicago), some neighborhoods there like Southside, geary, Hammond we don't do.

I do Dallas and Houston alot, el paso, most cities are fine for me at night. I try to avoid daytime appointments.

My least favored three are Dallas, Boston, and Buffalo, NY.

Lol, surprised to see Buffalo on your list, gotta be a story there. Or maybe it’s just because I’m local there, but the city is tiny.

I’ve really begun to hate Toronto, and I used to do nyc regularly.

What cities do you consider easy or hard to navigate through?

Personally, I find St Louis to be a breeze. Kansas City can get me twisted up if I’m not really careful.

My least favored three are Dallas, Boston, and Buffalo, NY.

I don't do NYC any longer, so it's not on my list.

I can’t believe I didn’t mention Dallas as my company is in the Dallas area. So I go in and out of the Dallas/Ft Worth area quite often.

I never cease to be amazed at how vast a metropolitan conglomerate it is and how much land it is comprised of. And the amount of complicated road and bridge construction is staggering. The construction and all the rerouting on frontage roads is extremely confusing and hard to navigate.

Recently I had a pickup to make in Irving at night. It took me almost an hour of missed turns and wrong guesses to finally get to the shipper. Horrible experience.

Then there are the east coast and upper NJ inner city areas. Not fun places to drive, especially the first time to shippers and receivers.

My places Iabsolutely hate are Seattle and it's suburbs as well as San Francisco.

I don't mind the LA area during the day or night, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver or most any other large cities with lots of population.

I used to go into the Bronx with a company I drove for back in the 90s. I haven't been back since and don't think I want to go there or the Northeast anytime soon.

Laura

Does all of Northeast NJ count as a city? It should. It's not too bad when you are on the Turnpike going through there, but once you have to get off and go through Newark, Secaucus, Jersey City, etc. it's a big pain in the butt.

I dont measure difficulty by how much traffic there is. My idea of difficult involves construction detours, one way streets, truck restricted roads, and roads that are so close together that my GPS gets confused.

My first time through Dallas was confusing. So many roads branching off each other! It confused my QC's navigation.

I went through Worcester, MA yesterday around noon. That place is a pain. Very busy and some narrow streets. I had to wait through a green light with cars beeping at me bc a driver was well over the white stop line on the side of the intersection I was trying to turn towards. He had a line of cars behind him so he couldn't back up🤬 Worst of all, I knew it was going to be a tight turn so I was blocking 2 lanes of traffic behind me.

Dallas is confusing, two or three splits with just one turn on a fwy. I once took the wrong split and ended up going under the airport. It probably added 20 miles and 45 minutes to get back on route. I drove through Dallas this morning, and traffic started building at 0500 am 40 miles out on I-30. I had to ride the right lane walls and lane shifts through construction zones on I-635. The lanes were very narrow and bumpy. It was one of those times I was glad traffic was slow going at 45.