How long can you play with no sleep?

[MarkJohnson]

I have noticed you can go along time without sleep. I think I have gone 3-4 hours (in-game hours) past the limit. I've almost blacked out a couple times. The screen got very dark. Sometimes those restareas are few and far between and too short on delivery time to take a detour.

With only 11 hours wake time, how do you get more hours of wake time. This is way too short.
I have to sleep 3 times in 2 days and sometimes more.

[Out For A Pootle]

In the options you can turn off the need to rest. Gameplay options I think. Can't remember the name of the box to tick but it it obvious. I believe then you never need to sleep. I keep it turned on all of the time because this is part of the simulation. It's also often a reminder to actually go to bed myself ;)

[The Pitts]

If you would prefer to play the game without turning off the need to sleep altogether, then plan your journey for each delivery and work out where you are going to need to have a kip. Even urgent deliveries leave you enough time to fit in your sleep breaks, you just need to be aware of those sections of the trip where there is a four or five hour gap between possible rest stops (even with the base map there are a couple of routes through central Germany with that problem). I also find that it is worthwhile zooming right in to look for additional rest areas as those that are sleep only don't show on the other zoom levels.

[Beltane]

Never tested that myself. As i play without artificial helpers i mostly wait 'til my guy starts to yawn. Then i check for avaible resting places along the way or close to it.

[Xyzan]

Actually, those aren't sleeps, but breaks ;) You wrote, that 3 times in 2 days... That is correct. This are regulated by law in Europe, and driver can drive for 9h, then have to have 9h break (in game it is 11h/9h)
As The Pitts said, it is wise to look at your sleep time, and start planning at least 3h before brake, where will you stop. With some game experience you will find out how much you can drive with one hour, and you will be able to determine if you are able to reach next rest stop, or not. Sometimes it is safer to divert from your main road, just to find a rest spot. You can always leave motorway, and go to hotel/service in any city, just to have a break. On services you are able to park with trailer without much problems. It will add some time to your travel, but will keep you rested.

[Bobby]

If you play too long past the 'blacking out' stage, you start getting fines.So it's counter productive i the long run. Like -basically- running red lights.

[Lothic]

why are you even trying not to sleep in this game?
ets isnt mario kart

[Ryu]

Couple other things to keep in mind:

Don't start a long haul when you've got less than 9 hours until your next sleep break. If the job doesn't take more than 11 or 12 hours to deliver, the game won't give you any extra time for sleep breaks.

If you push it too far after you start getting fines for avoiding sleep, you will eventually fall asleep at the wheel. Screen will go completely black and when the image comes back you find yourself crashed because the truck kept going when you blacked out.

[Dave]

How long can you play without having to sleep? Forever, if ye disable fatigue simulation that is.

Unless you're one of these die hard 'realism' people that'll be blasphemy in your eyes but, trust me, with fatigue simulation disabled coupled with the contract system jobs that revolves around real time? It's great. Nothing to stop you from having the actual breaks you're meant to either, only difference is it's down to you and it means you can leave the game running in the background so it's pretty identical to stopping for a few minutes in real life; pull up, get yourself some food and a drink, cuppa tea etc. do whatever then get back to it.

The fatigue simulation is a PITA that's simply due to the accelerated time that the game runs on and because you can't select how long you want to rest for, the actual stopping and sleeping part isn't the problem.

[MarkJohnson]

Thank you all for your replies. They are helpful, but no one really answered my question..

The closest answer was you blackout and crash. I have blacked out a couple of times. Once when I pulled into a rest stop and blacked out while stopping to sleep. Another time on the road as my rig malfunctioned. so nothing bad happened.

At first I thought it was just going to penalize me to death for not sleeping as I was getting fined so often. but then the screen started getting darker with each warning until it went completely black for a second or two, which I assumed was the blackout.

But does anyone know how long that takes, to blackout. I got my big clock with the seconds hand so I can time myself next time.

[Ryu]

Not sure if there is a definite real-time answer as game-time is variable depending on where you are on the map. I've not actually ever blacked out as I've never pushed much beyond getting 2 or 3 fines for avoiding sleep; maybe 1 to 2 hours of game-time after there was no time left on the sleep count-down.

[ttower]

I have never had it happen to me very long. I have had blackouts though, and i think the longer you wait, the more frequent blackouts become, and the longer they last. Im not sure if you eventually actually sleep or not though.

[Ryu]

The screen going dim around the edges isn't the actual blackout, rather, it's just you getting drowsy. You will eventually blackout. The screen will go totally dark and your truck will continue moving without your control, typically resulting in a crash. :)

[[TMS]REDLINESHOOTER1]

my best was 14 dayswith no sleep. though i was in my teens at the time these days 24-48 hours is about mmy max...

if you are playing with fatigue on you will likely no go past 10-11 hours of driiving..

with fatigue turned off you could go a month without sleep thus is why you miss weigh stations cause if you go in fineswill happen with no law complance

[The Pitts]

This may be something that has changed in different releases of the game but the only time I've ever had a total blackout there was a message in the middle of an otherwise totally black screen telling me that I'd fallen asleep. FWIW I've gone past my rest time by a couple of (game) hours without dozing off, although don't rely on a ferry trip recovering the normal amount of rest time when you're over because it seems to subtract from the total hours you've been driving, so if you are two hours over and take a three hour ferry ride you will only have one hour before needing to rest not the (anticipated, by me at least) three hours.

[Stringbean]

At the end of the day it's only a game so do whatever you want. Sometimes I start yawning and dozing off when I'm only a couple of hours away from my destination so I'll just quickly go in to the game menu and disable the fatigue setting. Again,..if I can't find a nearby rest stop and I'm getting desperately tired, then I'll just disable the fatigue until I get to my destination.