I figured he must be getting about 4 miles to a gallon, goosing it every three seconds like that. It'd cost ten times what it's worth to dig it all out and fill it back in. So there it sits, for years. The truck started on the first try, after sitting for all those weeks, and the Jersey Turnpike was right around the corner. Airplanes, trucks and ships here, yellow taxis over there.
Manhattan is a simple town to a highway truck.
City trucks have a lot of bridges and tunnels to choose from, but with a tall semi it just about has to be the George Washington bridge, and from there you either go down Broadway or Second Avenue. You grab a taxi to the hotel, get another back when it's time to load in, and it couldn't be simpler. We loaded out right after the show, taxis and limos sailing by on West 43rd, lots of action on the street, crowd sounds and music echoing down from Times Square. Took the loaded rig out on the East Side Sunday morning, up Third Avenue where the lights are set for about 35 miles an hour and where you can run 80 blocks without having to shift up or down, if you catch it clean. Right on 125th Street and a left takes you over the Willis bridge and then Major Deegan takes you right up to the big George Washington bridge.