Disappointing…must be a bunch of gay truckers then.
Word is that most truckers hate having to go into the city. Everything has to be paid in cash e.g. access to the yard, dock fee, lumper fee, pallets, etc etc. Plus the $100 toll just to get across the bridges. Nowhere to park the truck, and deliveries are 2am to 4am only or you lose a whole day in traffic. So few independents are willing to make the trip. The guy I got the word from is a company driver so he doesn’t deal with most of the red tape. But it’s mostly the independents who have the refrigerator trailers.
The upshot being that a lot of the refrigerator deliveries are done by some of the sketchier drivers or folks who aren’t necessarily completely legal and have ways around the fees.