Hope you dont get busted. When you do open your wallet $$$$
What roads to not go on in nyc in sprinter van
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Nothing to get busted for....not a commercial vehicle. I see 'unmarked Sprinters' on the Belt all the time and know a few of the local NYC couriers that drive them. Same thing on the GW Pkwy in VA/DC.
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Thank you, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Since I just work for a couple of courier companies, I don't have any markings or commercial plates on my Promaster. I still keep a close eye on clearance signs though.
NYC wasn't that bad although I only drove about 15 miles after the GWB. I would go on record saying Chicago is worse. Pretty much just look at your gps and make sure it doesn't take you on any parkways and if it does theres usually a way to change your route or avoid roads. Big signs for passenger cars only anyway.
No, it's both (in order to get a ticket). The quoted text makes that very clear.
Other states have different criteria for what does and does not require commercial tags, and NY doesn't impose its criteria for that onto other states, so having commercial tags from out of state, in and of itself, means very little. You can be marked and permanently altered (for property carrying), but if you don't also have commercial plates they won't consider you to be a commercial vehicle. You can have commercial plates and be permanently altered, but if you aren't marked then you likewise aren't a commercial vehicle in NY state.
I got intensely schooled on that particular law after receiving a ticket for "CMV on Parkway" and having to pay the fine (which is not cheap).
After having lived in Jersey (Howell Township and Manasquan) for a while and making many trips to JFK, well, the Belt Parkway is just how you go right? When I started expediting it never really occurred to me that the Belt Parkway was an actual parkway parkway that I shouldn't be driving on, because, I mean, that's how you go to JFK! In my mind Belt Parkway was just the name of the road and "parkway" didn't have any special meaning, could have been Belt Boulevard or Belt Road for all I cared. And, I had gone to and from JFK several times expediting while marked, permanently altered and commercial plated without incident. Luck ran out, and then I discovered that they're serious about that Parkway and "passenger cars only" crap.
In NY, even with no markings and non commercial plates, if it says "passenger car only" I stay off. And depending on time of day I can usually navigate the surface roads easier
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Even though I'm rather loudly marked and stand out pretty well, I'm right there with you. Anywhere in the northeast, for that matter. "Passenger cars only" might just mean 9 foot clearances or something. But mainly, after that NYC cop turned and pointed to the sign and said, "What part of 'passenger cars only' are you having trouble with? I'm here to help," I figure unless I can look, walk and quack like a passenger car, it's probably best not to assume the cops will think I'm one.
I was just saying, there's people hauling freight without proper insurance and proper commercial plates without stickers. They get pulled over and someone does a little looking then trouble is coming.
A lot of people hauling pizzas too that if you look at the tiny writing in their insurance policies, I'm sure say it is not allowed. I have the insurance that the companies I contract for require me to have.
I hate too even think about the average Uber driver and how many of them are improperly insured.
Uber drivers are covered by uber when they are online, that being said they do verify coverage on the vehicle when they are not online.
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OK, wasn't aware of that. Bottom line, what I have been doing for the past 15 years being a courier seems to be working, fingers crossed.