Transportation Coordinators

Here is how the work lines up. Transport planning in New York is a discipline shaped by Teamsters Local 817 — the union that supplies each commercial driver on NYC shoots — by a tunnel and bridge network that imposes height, weight and hazmat restrictions on production trucks, and by the new MTA congestion-pricing zone south of 60th Street that adds a daily cost layer on each basecamp move into Midtown and Lower Manhattan.

Here is how the picture comes together. The coordinators on our roster handle all three with used ease, routing gear convoys across the Holland, Lincoln, Midtown, Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels under the fitting clearance and hazmat protocols, across the George Washington, Williamsburg, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Throgs Neck bridges, and along the FDR, the BQE, the Cross Bronx, I-87 to upstate locations and I-95 down to Newark, Teterboro and the New Jersey lots.

Here is what we have to work with. Their fleet relationships span NYC production-car vendors such as Cinelease Transportation, Haddad's, Apple Production Vehicles and Reel Trucks, alongside passenger vans, blacked-out SUVs for principal cast from ops familiar with Local 817 scale, camera and grip trucks, wardrobe cars, honeywagons, mobile makeup trailers, power packs trucks and the EV-compliant car classes that the MTA congestion-pricing zone increasingly rewards.

Here is the layout. On the ground, our New York transport coordinators manage daily call-time pickups from cast hotels including the Greenwich Hotel, the Mark, 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge and the Wythe in Williamsburg, basecamp staging on the tight NYC DOT parking footprint with the parking authorisations the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and NYPD Movie/TV Unit need, location runs across all five boroughs, ATA carnet support for incoming foreign-plated gear containers arriving through Newark and JFK, and cross-border moves between New York, New Jersey and Connecticut when shoots sweep the tri-state area.

Here is how the work shapes up. They set up JFK, LaGuardia, Newark Liberty and Teterboro airport pickups, manage helicopter shuttles to East 34th Street Heliport and the Downtown Manhattan Heliport for VIP transfers, and book Amtrak Acela services from Penn Station along the Northeast Corridor to DC and Boston for crew moves on long firm days.

Here is how it adds up. They run LIRR and NJ Transit planning for crew moves out to Long Island and Jersey locations, handle the AirTrain interface at JFK and Newark for foreign-arriving cast, handle the congestion-pricing zone south of 60th Street day by day, and keep Teamsters Local 817 scale, late hours and turnaround protections accurately tracked through Cast & Crew payroll. We match coordinators based on fleet scale, geographic spread, Local 817 history and prior NYC credits.