Is it worth to buy a trailer?

[Korazim]

Im low lvl, so is it worth buying a trailer or not? I mean did i get more money when i come with my own trailer? Maybe someone have a guide for it. Would be nice.

[Briannospam]

I'll say it becomes how high you are in level, because:
Yes, you earns more per delivery... but it takes long time (many deliveries) before the trailer have earned in it's price.
And furthermore... when you go for your first trailer..noticed that, some cities do not have freight to all trailer models.
- But for cooler and flatbed with container connection I'm quit sure you can find freight in all cities.

[BN BN]

Honestly as a new player just focus on getting employees trucks and garages to put them in. It costs more obviously, but then they start earning you money faster.

Trailers do earn more per job, but I find their real value is just in the extra gameplay options it adds to the game. As a new player there’s a few restrictions on trailers that will hit you harder. Each trailer can only take certain types of cargo, which can also limit earnings compared to a hired trailer as you might not be able to find as good of a job at your destination as the one that took you there, and you have to keep it in a garage when you’re not using it. At the lower levels you probably only have one garage and won’t come to visit it hardly at all. So you probably won’t want to travel to the garage to pick up/drop off your trailer.

They’ll pay for themselves easy so long as you don’t damage them often because they’re pretty cheap, but yeah, I’d recommend investing in more employees first.

[Hippyshake]

Originally posted by BN BN:

They’ll pay for themselves easy so long as you don’t damage them often because they’re pretty cheap, but yeah, I’d recommend investing in more employees first.

Lots of goodness in BN BN's post. I just want to add that, when you finally do start buying trailers, your drivers will use them too, generating more income.

I'd hold off until your third garage or so, when things start paying for themselves and you no longer need the bank.

[Egobyte83]

Sorry for necroing, but I have never noticed any difference in payouts between the Cargo market and the Freight market. I check them both and for the same amount of distance, I am offered about the same amount of money if I do a cargo job or use my own trailer.

[Antaiir]

Due to the lack of any useful analyzing tools or proper statistics yet, i would say, financially no gain in buying one. Only gain imho is the possibility, to personalize your own trailers. Thats it. Yes it's fun, but you wont make _that_ big money with your own trailer. As far as i can see, the payout for any contract is almost the same, if you use the contractors trailer, or your own. I see not really a difference.

[Vlad Tepes]

I'm thinking perhaps this is similar to spending $30,000 on a custom paint job. You don't really get any higher paying jobs but it is kind of nice. Just one of those many things that makes ETS2 fun. I saw a trailer for $50,000. I am restarting a career and trying to do cash only, just driving for myself, so I don't see a benefit. But if I make enough money someday maybe I'll just get one.. first I have to fill my cab with all of that other useless junk lol.

[luZk]

I would say no, tho i did manage to get a 155k payout for a 2300km trip ealier today.

But often a trailer will limit your gameplay, a lot. Some cities only have 1 or 2 pages of hauls, today I even found a city only having one, that you can do with your own trailer.

I know that there is a limit to the amount of "mission trailers" that can be placed on the map near you. Imo the trailer should EXPAND not limit the amount of hauls you can accept. It's kinda a overhead from SCS if you ask me. It would be so easy to add 100s of trailer owner hauls from every city.

[Nite69]

For you as a driver sure

but for your employee drivers no, because trailers only work for specific jobs, and if a driver can't find a job to use with the trailer they will come home empty

[Qrazy]

Just finished a 2800km vaccine run for $222k using an insulated trailer. Insulated is pretty much the only ones I'll use.

[luZk]

Originally posted by Qrazy:

Just finished a 2800km vaccine run for $222k using an insulated trailer. Insulated is pretty much the only ones I'll use.

Might aswell get a refeer then you can do frozens too.

[Briannospam]

Originally posted by luZk:

But often a trailer will limit your gameplay, a lot.

Wrong.

Even if you own a trailer, no one is forcing you to use it all the time.

If you are in an area where you cannot be offered a satisfactory contract for your trailer, you can just search among jobs with borrowed trailers and you do not even have to throw away your trailer to look for jobs with borrowed trailers.

If you now try to take one of these borrowed trailer jobs while you still have your own trailer hooked on, you will get a dialog box informing you that if you take the borrowed trailer job, your own trailer will be sent to the garage where it belongs to, and here you get the opportunity to undo the choice of job.

In addition, we can eventually buy so many different trailers that I think we can take all types of cargo with our own trailer, it's just a matter of owning the right type for the cargo you want to take ...
- and yes, in order to know so many different types of cargo, you obviously have to own a selection of different trailers.

Originally posted by luZk:

Some cities only have 1 or 2 pages of hauls, today I even found a city only having one, that you can do with your own trailer.

The job selection you can get offered depends on the trailer type, as there is a difference in how many different types of freight the different trailer types can take.
For example, try looking for a job for the trailer type that is intended for tree trunks and pipes ... Then you will probably discover that there are many cities that do not have jobs for it at all.

Originally posted by luZk:

I know that there is a limit to the amount of "mission trailers" that can be placed on the map near you. Imo the trailer should EXPAND not limit the amount of hauls you can accept.

Since there is no trailer that can take all types of freight, ownership of a single trailer is impossible to expand the number of jobs offered.

Originally posted by luZk:

It's kinda a overhead from SCS if you ask me. It would be so easy to add 100s of trailer owner hauls from every city.

You just need to own several different trailer models so you know if necessary to switch between your trailers can take all the different types of freight.
There is no limit to how many trailers you can have in a garage.

[luZk]

I know I can't haul a bulldozer in a reefer, I was making a statement about the in my opinion too small selection of contracts with self owned trailers across the board.

Look, the reefer trailer is by far the most versatile and expensive trailer in the game. It can transport everything that cant fit on a lowboy or a flatbed.

Therefore it's not opitimal from a gamedesign perspective I was given one choice of contract from a fairly large city in spain. Can you understand that?

Also you don't have to white knight every single critique of SCS gamemechanics on here.

[Briannospam]

Originally posted by luZk:

Look, the reefer trailer is by far the most versatile and expensive trailer in the game. It can transport everything that cant fit on a lowboy or a flatbed.

If I remember correctly, a flatbed with pins is significantly more versatile than a refrigerated trailer.

Originally posted by luZk:

Therefore it's not opitimal from a gamedesign perspective I was given one choice of contract from a fairly large city in spain. Can you understand that?

As I understand you, you want all the cities to be able to offer you jobs for your trailer .. No matter what type of trailer you use.

Originally posted by luZk:

Also you don't have to white knight every single critique of SCS gamemechanics on here.

No, but I see myself in my good right to correct unreasonable and unjustified criticism .... and that kind of thing you have gradually come up with a part of in different threads as far as I remember.

[luZk]

Oh i forgot the grain trailer and logger, you will have a fieldday with this.

And to above, no I dont want to move everything with one trailer, I just want more than 1 contract to be available from one city when I am using the most vertasile kind. Even pallets or used plastic would do.

And no having the choice of dropping the most vertasile trailer or driving 3000km with no say on where to is poor gamedesign.

[luZk]

External contract.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2469271023

Same External using own trailer.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2469270999