I will never understand why some States try and penalize the trucking industry which is literally the heart beat of this country. Just blows my mind....

Florida is bad because you can't get loads out most of the time. However, I've never had a problem getting parking.

Appreciate the content today and in previous days. I’m 27yr driver and still like to hear realistic , useable info

Anything between DC and Boston is an absolute disaster during the daytime. I remember there was a night when the Bronx wasn't congested and a convoy of us truckers were flying through the tunnels going 65. Once in a lifetime and we knew it

Northeast corner currently and the reason I typed in worst states to drive to make sure my frustration was valid😂😂😂

Plus I can go without scaling most of the country, but enter California and scale 3 times for the same load.

55 mph on the interstate!? There’s areas of Texas where it’s 85!

We're gonna have to add Connecticut to the "worst" list, in its own place. Governor just signed to introduce a road tax for ALL trucks over 26,000 gross to pay 17.5 cpm, by 2023. Hurting not only the state by cutting down the supplies the state will be getting because of drivers refusing to go to Connecticut, but also killing off local carriers.

Thanks brother love the information I'm staying away from them places you guy's rock

Its going to get to the point where California is going to have to make up their minds: Do we want goods? or not? Shippers should charge according to the " bitch factor".. If its a bitch to get it to you, You will be charged much more just for the hassle. The California special Tax of 20% just because of the hassle.

I'm not a trucker, but I travel over the road throughout the Divided States of America. I agree with your assessment about the different states. I am glad to know that my home state of TEXAS made it on your "good" state list. By the way, I support and appreciate truckers. Thanks for all that you do!!! I see some of the crazy drivers that you have to deal with out there. Be safe!!

Northeastern trucker here!

Wisconsin - I found that to be one of the easiest states to deal with as a trucker - Most areas seem to have adequate truck parking,and law enforcement mostly leaves truckers alone of course,the roads are mostly flat,and I was usually driving trucks that were governed at 65 mph.... I have been off the road since November 2014 due to injury....I agree with you 100% about California,for too many reasons to get into here ....

Cool video 👍👍

Anyone notice how everyone in the comments is only talking about the bad places? Nobody sees the good in anything.

ARLENE'S! That place is always an amazing place to stop. Used to go to it all the time working with RU as it was a Midway between Chicago area and Ontario. The food there is amazing and the weekend parking is even better. Even when I got there at night there was at least a few spots. Now that I'm working for a much better company with hopper/dumps, I go there whenever I go along the 94 :)

I used to live in and drive trucks in California back in the 90s. Back in Texas now, recently got back into trucking and run in a non-governed truck running 75 MPH and can’t help but think how they’d likely lock my ass up in California for driving that fast! Love driving in Texas, loved it back in the 90s too. Recently took a load down to Miami and had no issue with parking. Lots of rest areas with plenty of parking plus they will let you shut down at the scales without any hassle. Parking down in Miami sucked though but it sucks in any city.

I love your motives here. I dream of a nationwide community of organization to benefit drivers

I live in Maine. Everything he said about the northeast is true. That’s the area I run all the time. It is definitely tight and crowded

🎯💯 I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!!

There will be one worse state starting next year. Connecticut will be charging 17.0 cents per mile for truck drivers.

You are correct sir!

It’s actually close to or over $4 a gallon in California.. Oregon is in the low $3 or below in certain areas

You missed one Georgia there’s always an accident on the i 75 the closer you get to Atlanta the worst the traffic and the fight for parking is at a high like no other you’ll be paying for parking

Great video! Curious on where you fuel your Big Rig and your discounts

Nice advise

Love this guy, has full reason in all.

On point.

Right now I do three loads a week from Altoona to Sterling Heights MI and I ignore their no idle law. Reason being is I have to use a C Pat machine because apparently I have sleep apnea. However if I try to run it straight off the battery and alternator the truck tends to shut off before the allotted six hours per night I need to stay compliant. Only once did I get called on it and had a DOT personally knock on my truck. I was told to shut off my truck or get fined where I explained to him I must make sure the C PAT machine is always working or I'm not compliant for my job. That is a federal regulation that supersedes their state law and I invited them to go pull that up on their computer to double check as I pulled it up on my phone. After 10 minutes of him sitting in his car he told the person who called on me something I couldn't make out then left. Haven't had a problem since, but then again I stay at a different truck stop now.

yep I had hard time to get out of Maryland this morning , not thru truck I ended up into the city.

Not to many areas to park in the virginias either.Tennesse is hard as well .

Oregon is only 55 on I-84 between Portland and The Dales. The permit number required when you fuel is a stupid holdover. They don't participate in IFTA anymore. They charge a straight up mileage tax instead now. That's a little odd for a state full of tree huggers since IFTA penalized low mileage trucks and the mileage tax doesn't.

And what would be the best in regards to taxes that apply for trick drivers? Any insight on the subject??? Thanks

I run northestern 2 trip a week from QC (reefer) and you forgot they are number ONE in detention time and lumper fee

Where else can you score German bier than Muenster tx, Huntington Beach, ca?

Back in the 90s we figured Oregon had to be 25 cents cheaper per gallon to be competitive with the road tax figured in

NM, VA for sure

I've never had an issue with California. The TA and Petro in Ontario is almost never full

The northeast especially is definitely a ticket trap. Worse part is it gets more restricted every year.

4.19 diesel 6/29/21 at a loves CA

Well Oregon raised speed limit to 60 North and South and east of troutdale it's 65 I'm based out of Oregon and live in California I guess it's just what you get used to

Great video 👍

Except for availability of good food and parking space, how does it really bither a driver as to which state he/she is driving into? Will the dispatcher not know who he is sending to which state, what kind of truck it is like make/model etc?

As a local truck driver in the Rhode Island and mass area I agree it's ass over here 😂

Not bad!

I found Texas truck stops to be small, considering everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas! No truck parking at Bucees..what's up with that!

Florida I have been told is not a production state so therefore you can get loads going into Florida but you cannot get loads going out of Florida

I spent 25 years running the Northeast. I will say western Pennsylvania and upstate new York was ok. Also vermont and new Hampshire. the rest of the Northeast sucked.

New Jersey. Where the shortest distance between two points is NEVER A STRAIGHT LINE

Louisiana ,Mississippi, I 20 on both is a bunch of crap they are so messed up that you feel like you’re 4 wheeler

Oregon is 65 most places and has almost zero traffic. Never had a problem with dot and their fuel tax is just a bond they pay back to you at the end of the year. The shippers are all pretty good about unloading and most don't use capstone unless you haul refer. Imo it's a really easy state to run if you have light loads, beats the absolute shit out of delivering to washington or california imo.

Hi Dave greeting's from Calgary. Are you from Alberta? What kind of oilfield trucking did you do?

Washington and Georgia you can tack on

Wow - I remember when a gallon of 89 was like $1.80-2.20.

I run ca every week ..my 5 trucks are all pre 2000 and i have never had an issue .. we run dallas to Ontario ones a week avg 9-10k a week per truck.. yes traffic sucks, yes 55mph suck.. but D.O.T dont give a shit about emissions. There is thousands of trucks going into cali on i-10 daily so the possibility of getting a 1k dollar fine over emissions is very very low.

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Besides fuel prices and the cities, Pennsylvania is great in my opinion

When I was driving, I hated Northern New Jersey & New York City ( Queens, Brooklyn). I really enjoyed driving in Canada around Toronto.

Is it better to move to Dallas TX or Houston TX ?

Oregon wants your ifta because there is no fuel tax in Oregon, dot told me that when I applied for the Oregon permit for my trucks.

people from CA now moved to my town a lot….

Hey man California is my state. But right now I'm in Tennessee and damn this is a bad area too many curves and hills. Florida sucks too and Memphis is 55 mph . I hate going thru the northeast . I love the southwest . Midwest is okay . But it's a learning experience for me. I don't mind paying for a spot .

NE states pay the most per mile though and the trips are short.

I would like to know the loads where is the best states to get loads at I'm in the Northeast

I'm a driver too bro...been driving for 13 years now. And you know why califas. Is so expensive..... Cus. We got Disneyland. And we also got the artists...lol..... All you guys be safe out there and God bless....

Can anyone tell me their thoughts about Arkansas?-Arkansas resident.

My biggest one is the state of Indiana. The interstates (especially I70) have always been a minefield😡 My federal dollars at work. 🙄

I curse New Jersey roads and traffic everyday.

You didn't mention Connecticut with their new raod tax law passed that takes effect I think 2023...

There are drivers that drive to other countries ?

It' was simple for me I never went East of the Mississippi River

I love Texas no weight station or close almost all year around.

I'm a just retired firefighter and a new independent dispatcher any help and or guidance would be greatly appreciated

The i40 is the best lane imo

Don't go to a truck stop in Memphis Tennessee and expect a good time. There's a good bit of crime there and some lot lizards. And there's usually no parking after twelve PM

I personally like wyo MT Iowa NV

Where’s the best state to live as a trucker?

How did Chicago not make the list of the worst places to drive?

Texas? Good road conditions? Where have you been in Texas? Once another guy complained to me about the poor road conditions in Navajo land in New Mexico, saying they were some of the worst he's experienced (Highway 491). I later went on it, and in my experience it was about typical of Texas' awfully maintained roads.

Agree with everything except Florida there's large rest areas every 30-40 miles onI 75 and I 10

Cali is more expensive for a couple reasons. In no particular order. 1. Because Alot of truckers will simply never enter the state w their truck, so capacity will always be tight there until that changes 2. Taxes, permits, licenses, building regulations etc etc are the most exclusive and expensive to comply with anywhere. 3. Combining first two with the fact it is in fact a beautiful land and always has been means that despite being so difficult, people wanna be there... so that means to some people is worth paying more for everything. That being said... it seems points 1 and 2 are outweigh point 3... as most realistic and intelligent humans expected to happen in due time.

Raise your hand if you like west Virginia and Wyoming in the winter time

I wouldn't put Florida as "bad" only because of Parking. Flordia was definitely better than Texas for me. I'd Texas as real bad. Texas is worse than California. Have you seen the maniacs drivers of Texas? Texas drivers are worse than 3rd world. Texas drivers intentionally cut off others including truckers. Houston is probably one of the worst place to drive in all over the world. Drivers going from far left to far right lane on a 4 lane highway :S

Yes I do agree California is the worst the speed 55 and he will easy pull you for 59 and he will give you a warning ticket wish is no no no parking. Unless the money is double I don’t like to go there

Boycott California. I got 1 fix it ticket just outside Baltimore. Got pulled into a scale at the entrance to a tunnel heading into Baltimore. One of the officers came out of his shack, told me to stay in my cab while he crawled under my. Didn’t even go under my trailer. Came out from under my truck in about 3 minutes and told me that I was missing a retaining bolt on my right side fuel tank strap. About 4 days prior I had a service done on that truck and did a visual personally. Everything was in place. When I was under my truck at that scale I saw fresh tool marks where the bolt was missing. The officer said he knew a mechanic close by and asked me if I wanted to call him. I told him to call. Then I called my boss on a pay phone conveniently located on the end of the shack and told him that what was going on was BS. My boss told me to get it taken care of to get on my way. A mechanic showed up and parked hidden out of sight on the far side of the shack. The officer came back out of his shack and disappeared out of sight, then immediately returned back inside, then reappeared with an $11.00 fix it ticket which I wrote a check for and dropped into a mail box also located conveniently there as well. The mechanic reinstalled the original bolt said it cost $50.00. I gave him my boss’s number, my boss gave the mechanic the number for Com Check which cleared. I was never compensated for that fix it ticket. Happened around August 1989. All other tickets came from California. One BS ticket from Maryland, lost track of the Revenue Enhancement tickets I’ve gotten from officers being pushed by Cooked Black Robes, some of whom lied straight to my face.

I hate Cali the most especially the speed limit

How old is this viddy? Restaurants if open at all are a nationwide disaster Parking is a national crisis Stop remembering so far back This year 2021 these issues are king

Your using out of date data. Restaurants? The truck stop restaurant industry had gone nuts. Many has done away with breakfast or overnight food. And they're changing over to fast food only.

Oregon bumped up to 65 I believe

I would never pick Virginia or West Virginia as truck friendly States. The best States for trucks in my Opinion Hands Down is OHIO, ILLINOIS AND IOWA!

As a Pennsylvanian trucker imma tell yall stay out. Seriously especially those who never seen snow. It's like night of the living swift drivers every winter.

How is Wisconsin, Illinois, ohio, and Indiana?

Conneticut is not the only state doing this. These governors talk to each other and there are other bills moving through different states moving through their legislatures. Even Republicans are on board with this..they are also the ones big on toll roads. Expect most states to have it within the next 5 years.

I'll drive CA all day long, there is lots of freight going in and out of there.

North East,

Sounds like you had personal problem oregon everyone drives 62mpr and up including truckers.

Yes that’s right the best and worst states but you forgot Washington is bad for parking

If you think Saskatchewan has bad roads? Go to manitoba lol

California is the worst state to be a trucker in. 3 out of 4 of the loads I attempted to drop off in California was attempted theft by multiple distribution places. They would always bang on my door claiming the load was short from what the bills mentioned. Once I tell them "how about I count the parcels myself", magically they find the products that were "missing". On top of that, no parking, rude people and no respect for truckers! Stay away!

Kids if you are a New Driver with limited experience tell your company No New York No Jersey City if you can avoid the north east do it