Easy Or Hard? Big Cities.

I like all types of driving conditions. Personally, I'm ok with big-city driving. It's predictably slow and I know everyone will try to cut in front of me. The maze of roads can become confusing at times. But, it's the small towns with only one or two main truck routes in and out of town that have streets and turns that aren't meant for a truck with a sleeper cab pulling a 53' trailer that makes me more nervous. The ones where people step out from behind their cars and just open the door in front of you to try to get in before you pass by them. Hanover, Pennsylvania and Rochester, NY, come to mind.

I like all types of driving conditions. Personally, I'm ok with big-city driving. It's predictably slow and I know everyone will try to cut in front of me. The maze of roads can become confusing at times. But, it's the small towns with only one or two main truck routes in and out of town that have streets and turns that aren't meant for a truck with a sleeper cab pulling a 53' trailer that makes me more nervous. The ones where people step out from behind their cars and just open the door in front of you to try to get in before you pass by them. Hanover, Pennsylvania and Rochester, NY, come to mind.

Bill, good point about some small towns.

Last week I was routed through Morgantown, WV on my way to Mooresfield, WV. (I bet PackRat is familiar with the area).

Going through Morgantown is like doing a close quarters maneuvering course designed by a madman. It would be tight for go-carts, let alone trucks.

However, the drive was one of the most challenging, interesting and beautiful drives I’ve done as a driver. I went through the Monongahela National Forest with a beautiful river and rapids alongside the road. Slow going but absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. It was a refreshing and enjoyable contrast to interstate highway driving.

I'm still so new to this that it's hard for me to really say with a lot of confidence.

I got seriously turned around in Houston recently, in this little old neighborhood with narrow streets. 100% should not have been there. I'm lucky to have gotten back out.

Had to drive through Chicago. That was challenging.

Like I said its hard to really say "Oh yeah this place I hate" because I've only been driving for two months now solo. Plus, my company does not do southwest (California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico) or the northeast so I've been spared a lot of the worst ones.

I am not looking forward to Atlanta, which many of my coworkers says is bad. And we do have accounts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, so yeah.

From the archives for Pelican, lol

Yeah the consensus among my coworkers is that Atlanta is to be avoided at all costs.

I've heard New Jersey has some tough roads. Maybe they'll send me there one day, hopefully not.

From the archives for Pelican, lol