Which lane i should drive when theres 3 lanes?

[David Wolfmaiden]

For example German auto bahn has 3 lanes, i know that the very right one is for vehicles who will have to turn, but what about the middle lane and the left one specificaly for trucks?

[Xyzan]

You should drive the most right lane that leads to direction you are driving. So, when having 3 lanes, you should be on the most right one. If there is an exit, and the most right line is exiting, then you are switching to the middle one (which becomes the most right when you are passing exit).
Always the most right lane is a correct place for a truck. There are several different rules across europe though, on some countries you cannot over take with truck, when there are less than 3 lanes, on some you cannot while raining... but general rule is that trucks, as slower vehicles, should be on the most right lane most of the time.

[Dave]

Outside lane if there's no exit for miles (the one next to the hard shoulder). If you need to drive further down switch to the middle when an exit is coming up so you don't take it. Inside lane for overtaking although you shouldn't need to.

[David Wolfmaiden]

Originally posted by Xyzan:

You should drive the most right lane that leads to direction you are driving. So, when having 3 lanes, you should be on the most right one. If there is an exit, and the most right line is exiting, then you are switching to the middle one (which becomes the most right when you are passing exit).
Always the most right lane is a correct place for a truck. There are several different rules across europe though, on some countries you cannot over take with truck, when there are less than 3 lanes, on some you cannot while raining... but general rule is that trucks, as slower vehicles, should be on the most right lane most of the time.

Thanks! Always was drivring on the middle lane, i kind of felt that i should drive on the 3 lane.

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

as you mention Germany as example: Trucks MUST, HAVE TO, drive on the most right lane if the situation does not force you to do otherwise. That´s not only true for motorways, but also inner-city-traffic etc. By law, btw :) (("Rechtsfahrgebot", best translation "obligation to drive on the right"))

[pieperjohanns]

Originally posted by David Wolfmaiden:

For example German auto bahn has 3 lanes, i know that the very right one is for vehicles who will have to turn

That is nonsense. The third lane turning into an exit is an invention of SCS. In reality German highways look like the ones in the France DLC, meaning that every exit has its own (fourth) lane.

Trucks always have to use the rightmost lane if they are not overtaking.

[DLM]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

Originally posted by David Wolfmaiden:

For example German auto bahn has 3 lanes, i know that the very right one is for vehicles who will have to turn

That is nonsense. The third lane turning into an exit is an invention of SCS. In reality German highways look like the ones in the France DLC, meaning that every exit has its own (fourth) lane.

Trucks always have to use the rightmost lane if they are not overtaking.

I am not sure where they got that non legit highway layout, probably the U.S. where you can have 2 lanes heading to one direction and 2 other lanes in a different direction so you might end driving on a middle lane but in Europe this is indeed definitely not how it works. Other than a few exception (usually a highway splitting to form a second one going in a different direction*) you never get trapped in an exit if you hold the right lane.

(*) And even there when that happens the separation line has a different marking so that you can tell that your lane is going off. Except for the french highways in the game they never use a different marking.

[Xyzan]

In real world, if one lane is going to finish, or becomes an exit, it is very clearly marked earlier. You have enought time, to change the line and be prepared. Those running away lines are insane and would cause a lot of trouble in real world ;) That is why some of ETS truckers use left line for every exit - as you don't know if line will end, or not.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Xyzan:

That is why some of ETS truckers use left line for every exit - as you don't know if line will end, or not.

Use Promods and ye can drive like you do for real everywhere in the game. That confusion ye mentioned only happens with the default map because the road signs tell you one thing and the roads do the complete opposite - except for in Scandinavia and France because SCS actually improved them.

[happy]

Originally posted by pieperjohanns:

Originally posted by David Wolfmaiden:

For example German auto bahn has 3 lanes, i know that the very right one is for vehicles who will have to turn

That is nonsense. The third lane turning into an exit is an invention of SCS. In reality German highways look like the ones in the France DLC, meaning that every exit has its own (fourth) lane.

Trucks always have to use the rightmost lane if they are not overtaking.

Yeah, those lanes in ETS2 are so confusing, ive been having my drivers license for 4 years now and never saw a lane which suddenly was an exit lane.
Exit lanes are another special lane which start 500m before the exit itself occurs. Never had a problem with those irl.
But in ETS2 i frequently find myself on an exit i didnt actually want to take.

[Murdoch]

Alot of these things was created when SCS was tiny so they took alot of shortcuts understandably. Hopefully this will be sorted at some point in the future, and if not, guess we have to stick to ProMods ^^

[Colluceus]

Remember that is is illegal (edit: for trucks only of course) in most countries to drive on the very left lane when there are 3 lanes available.

Originally posted by Jackrabbit_V6:

as you mention Germany as example: Trucks MUST, HAVE TO, drive on the most right lane if the situation does not force you to do otherwise. That´s not only true for motorways, but also inner-city-traffic etc. By law, btw :) (("Rechtsfahrgebot", best translation "obligation to drive on the right"))

[Long Ago [Linux]]

In Europe how do they really warn in advance when a lane is an exit only lane on a multi-lane road?

The game is confusing because when there are 2 lanes in the same direction, signs in advance often make it appear that one lane is "straight only" and other lane can either "go straight or exit". But you do not know until you reach a sudden split that right lane is really exit only (sometimes). In some cases there are painted lines you can drive over to merge into the single straight lane. But sometimes there are guardrails lining the straight lane at the split and you suddenly have to dart over and hope you do not have a collision.

So sometimes I am dodging fast cars trying to get into the fast lane which "might" be the only straight lane, only to find out that both lanes happened to be able to go straight there.

[DLM]

Originally posted by AnkleBiter Linux:

In Europe how do they really warn in advance when a lane is an exit only lane on a multi-lane road?

The most visual sign is the marking on the road, the separating line has a different spacing.

That's RL, not in game though.

[MillerMi10]

Originally posted by Xyzan:

You should drive the most right lane that leads to direction you are driving. So, when having 3 lanes, you should be on the most right one. If there is an exit, and the most right line is exiting, then you are switching to the middle one (which becomes the most right when you are passing exit).
Always the most right lane is a correct place for a truck. There are several different rules across europe though, on some countries you cannot over take with truck, when there are less than 3 lanes, on some you cannot while raining... but general rule is that trucks, as slower vehicles, should be on the most right lane most of the time.

Perfect explanation! Just adding, exact same in the U.K. just you stay in the very left lane instead :P

[Seraphin]

Originally posted by DLM:

Originally posted by AnkleBiter Linux:

In Europe how do they really warn in advance when a lane is an exit only lane on a multi-lane road?

The most visual sign is the marking on the road, the separating line has a different spacing.

That's RL, not in game though.

Don't forget that at any direction change there are several signs for each lane telling where the lane will lead to ... but SCS didn't care for that too, as there are a lot of sign's ingame showning two lanes leading straight ahead and one exit lane while there are only two lanes at all.

SCS just did a pile of junk regarding the motorways in central europe / base map ... guess they thought, they need to do so, so the players have something to watch for. But I still hope for an free update where they will fix all these silly parts of motorways to make them more real, just like they did for the France DLC then.