Once upon a time in nyc...

[diydave]

[billinohio]

I have never had any desire to go to NYC, and even less reason to go there now.
When I was hauling the little tractors towards New England, I kept as far away from NYC as possible.
Atlanta is fairly impossible to avoid, so I go through in the wee hours.

Hmmmmmm…the headliner is falling down in his truck, just like mine!

Dumb question ….if the ATF tests you and finds traces of MaryJane, can they take your firearms? CBD is about the same?

[rustyfarmall]

I did a stint as an over-the-road trucker way back in the '80s. Hauled boxed beef from the Omaha area into NYC. Did that same trip many times, but never delivered to the same place more than once. I could provide more details but I won't. Needless to say I WILL NOT ever go to NYC again and I strongly discourage any of my family or friends from going there as well. Even as far back as the '80s, I strongly doubted that NYC was even in the U.S.A.

[sandbur]

I have a good friend that hauled boxed beef there as well out of Tama. Keyword there "Hauled" (past tense) ....meaning he used to,....he won't go there anymore. He made good coin going in there. He is an owner operator.
My wife has been there a couple times and she likes it...but I think that was when Giuliani was mayor. She wants to go again..I WILL NOT. No way in hell. If she wanted to divorce me for not going with her, well I will be lawyering up.lol

[Erstwhile]

We took the kids thru NYC once.  Drove around some of downtown for half hour or so on an early Sunday morning; parked and walked in Grand Central Station.  Got in the 75 Olds and drove out over one of the big bridges and headed out.  I skirted downtown myself a coupla times while going thru to somewhere else for meetings.  Otherwise, I didn't lose a thing in NYC and don't need to go back to look for it!

[rustyfarmall]

Feb 26, 2024 21:06:54 GMT -6 Erstwhile said:

We took the kids thru NYC once.  Drove around some of downtown for half hour or so on an early Sunday morning; parked and walked in Grand Central Station.  Got in the 75 Olds and drove out over one of the big bridges and headed out.  I skirted downtown myself a coupla times while going thru to somewhere else for meetings.  Otherwise, I didn't lose a thing in NYC and don't need to go back to look for it!

I lost a pocket knife up in Buffalo, but I ain't never going back to look for it.

[haywood]

During the 'Julie Ah Knee' Era it would have been worth visiting.  But now days "Not"!!

[504]

I delivered a truck load of Donaldson air filters to the city bus terminal in Brooklyn. Several trips out to Long Island to deliver Knapheide truck beds. I remember $5.00 a pack for cigarettes out there,and I quite smoking in 1985.

[RedDave]

I've been through, or around New York city many times, but only actually been in the city twice.  The first time was back in the 1960's when my oldest sister was moving to Massachusetts.  Dad and I were taking her stuff to her new home in a U Haul van, going right through over the George Washington bridge.  The plan was to just go through, but my old man got another idea in his head.

As we were approaching the bridge, he says "lets get off and I'll show you where they sent me to school during the war".  He had attended some tech school in New York before he was sent overseas. So down some side street we went in this U Haul looking for where he was 20+ years earlier.  We drove up and down those narrow streets looking for the place, but he never found it. Eventually, he got lost and couldn't find the ramp to get back on 95 to get across the bridge.  It was a rough neighborhood, to say the least. I'm glad it was daylight.

We were stopped, searching the map to figure out how too get out of there when a cop car pulled up.  The cop got out and walked up to the U Haul and growled "What the Hell are you doing here with this truck?"  Dad admitted that he was lost and asked how to get back on to the elevated interstate highway. The cop told him where to go and finished with "Get that truck the Hell out of here and don't come back". Mom and my sister were following us in her car and they were both pissed at him.

Someday I'll tell you about the time we were in a truck, in southern Maryland picking up hatching eggs for the hatchery when he said "You've never been in Washington DC before, have you?"  He drove a Chevy C60, with a 20 foot box on it right up Pennsylvania Ave, right past the White House.

You can't do that today.

[billinohio]

I got lost hauling a little tractor through DC suburbs. Not the best place to explore. And then we were looking for a motel. Everything decent was filled up. We saw one that we turned our noses up at, but couldn’t find anything else, so, held our noses and went back. Do all motel clerks have bullet proof glass in front of them?
Off the main thoroughfares, the streets are narrow and lots of twists and one way stuff, and you have to have a parking pass from the police to park on the streets.
Tell me again, why does anybody want to live there?

[olfolks]

My uncle driving into NYC in his 55 KW stub nose was starting into a tunnel, he said traffic was barely moving lot of stop and go. This was mid to late 70’s , he had just started rolling and a “brother” jumped up on the passenger side and stuck his head in the open window. Not having a/c he had a dyed wool sheep skin over the dog house to help keep heat out. The brother told him when they got out of the tunnel “they” were going to unload his truck, unc said I have help where I am going don’t need you, brother says no we gonna unload you and starts to crawl in the window . Unc reached under the sheep skin pulled out his 1911 cock it pointing at the brothers nose. He said the brother pushed his self off the truck in the middle of the tunnel at about 45 mph . My dad asked him if he ran over the guy and unc said don’t know never looked besides they have plenty they won’t miss one if I did

[rustyfarmall]

Feb 28, 2024 21:47:41 GMT -6 olfolks said:

My uncle driving into NYC in his 55 KW stub nose was starting into a tunnel, he said traffic was barely moving lot of stop and go. This was mid to late 70’s , he had just started rolling and a “brother” jumped up on the passenger side and stuck his head in the open window. Not having a/c he had a dyed wool sheep skin over the dog house to help keep heat out. The brother told him when they got out of the tunnel “they” were going to unload his truck, unc said I have help where I am going don’t need you, brother says no we gonna unload you and starts to crawl in the window . Unc reached under the sheep skin pulled out his 1911 cock it pointing at the brothers nose. He said the brother pushed his self off the truck in the middle of the tunnel at about 45 mph . My dad asked him if he ran over the guy and unc said don’t know never looked besides they have plenty they won’t miss one if I did

I've heard some similar stories. One in particular was a similar situation where the "brother" jumped onto the running board. The driver grabbed a pistol and shot the brother. Then the trucker found a police officer and told him what had just happened. The police officer informed the driver that he should have just kept going.

[billinohio]

Somebody in the tractor club told about getting a CB call when he was in a truck stop “ Do you know you are getting jacked?” The jacker ended up stuffed in a manhole.
Thankfully, I can not remember who it was, probably long gone anyway.

[cocub2]

as station at St. Albans Naval Hospital in the 1970's.  Armed guards at the gates had chambered rounds, ready to fire. Not a nice area for a hospital.