Nebraska to New York Car Shipping Guides

Moving to New York

• Every parkway in the state is closed to car carriers

  New York's parkway system was built with low stone overpasses, some posted as low as 6 feet 11 inches, and commercial vehicles are barred from all of them. The state lists the consequences of trying anyway as fines, points on the license, damage to the bridge, and towing charges over $10,000 for a tractor-trailer. This is why a carrier heading to Long Island or Westchester takes a longer route than your map suggests, and why the driver may not be able to reach an address a parkway serves.

• New York City caps the truck at 55 feet

  Tractor-trailer combinations on city truck routes may not exceed 55 feet long, 13 feet 6 inches high and 8 feet wide, and commercial vehicles may not use parkways at all. A loaded multi-car carrier is longer than that limit, so inside the five boroughs delivery is usually made either at a meeting point outside the city or by a smaller truck running the last leg. Agree which one it will be before the truck is loaded, not when it arrives.

• The insurance has to be New York's before the registration can exist

  The DMV will not accept out-of-state vehicle insurance of any kind, so a policy that covered the car where it came from cannot be used to register it here. You need New York liability cover issued by a company licensed in the state, and a new resident has thirty days from establishing residence to register. Arrange the New York policy while the car is still in transit; doing it in the order the DMV needs is the whole difficulty.