Empty pallets....

[Matt J]

Seeing a Freight Market job of empty pallets from Barcelona to Corsica in ETS2 at the moment.

Two ferries needed. Imagine that in real life, 2 ferries, enormous cost with a truck and trailer, takes 24 hours or so. For some empty pallets. A total waste of money. Completely unrealistic.

No-one is going to pay for a one way trip from Spain to a French island for only empty pallets.

Another one, Rennes to Limoges. Empty pallets, 430 or so km. How many euro pallets would fit in a trailer? 3 rows of 11, each stacked 12 pallets high. 396 pallets. For 9000 euro haulage cost.
Assume they are used pallets. When you order 396, you'd pay a volume rate of max 10 euro per pallet. So, 3960 euro for a truck of used pallets. And 9000 euro to have them delivered from 430 km away. 12960 euro for the whole thing. Some expensive pallets....
Completely unrealistic.

Please SCS, make these empty pallet jobs more realistic. Pallets can always be sourced within 50 km in most places in Europe. Even on Corsica.
I suggest these jobs need to be only under 50 km, no ferries. Or just remove them altogether. They have no added value.

[Wolfgang]

Just saying: The whole economy is unrealistic in the game. And that is actually a good thing. Imagine how long you need to play just to get your first truck if the game had a realistic economy. You would probably need 10+ hours of playing just to be able to get your own truck. But with the game economy in its state it can be done within 1 hour. And from that point on you are free to do what you want.

No contract ever for a truck will pay more than 30€ per km. Mostly far less.

[Underscore_101_3]

Aside from the money aspect It's not unrealistic at all, Euro/Chep pallets aren't cheap, also not considered "used" but that's another story :-) , and some companies use their own special pallets, for example i work for a company that makes stuff for VW, and they often bring empty pallets/fust for us to use/fill, that's actually common practice in the entire Car/Truck industry for example.
And they get their parts from all over Europe and beyond.

Also, when a company receives goods on lets say 10 euro pallets they have to return 10 (emtpy) euro pallets, otherwise they'd have to pay a, is bond the right word for it,.... anyhoo, they have to pay or return the same ammount,
Those empty pallets are stored somewhere untill needed by a producing company so they can deliver to customers that then return the empty pallets, etc, etc,....

Also, if you look at it the way you're doing you're going to find a lot more "unrealistic" prices :-)

Also 1 euro pallet is about 50 euro in bond (last time i checked which was a long time ago), so 396 x 50 = 19.800 Euro :-)

[The Pitts]

The number of jobs that involve sitting on a ferry or two whilst requiring only a small amount of driving bugs me too (especially in the northern and eastern seaboards of Iberia) but the empty pallets does not. Personally I would like to see SCS weight more against jobs with long sea journeys, but they cannot do so too heavily because then there'd be no jobs to the islands (including the UK) at all.