Detours and Special Transport- BAD IDEA!

[Purrge]

Yesterday, I travelled 22 hours across the map, to do a special transport job. I start the job, and guess what's waiting on the highway 10 mins into the job? A freakin' DETOUR!

So there's a road accident, completely blocking the highway, and that too at a place, where there is no other exit, so no way to go through, and plus since it's special transport; you have to stay behind the escort vehicle.

I leave the game running, stopped behind the escort vehicle, there's a big traffic jam behind me, and I'm thinking this might be a new game feature, and the roadblock will eventually be cleared. But boy was I wrong; I stood there for hours, the night turned into day and nothing happened.

So, I finally go into game settings, turn the detour slider all the way down, get back into the game, and VOILA!

The block is cleared, but now my driver is sleepy and there's no way I can make a rest stop. I try to power through, the driver dozes off, I crash my truck, and seeing no way out, have to abandon the job and pay 15K Euros as penalty. Also, I now have to pay 20K Euros for truck repairs. What a waste of time!

BAD EXPERIENCE! Has something similar happened to anyone else?

[Shadowcaster]

If you had closed the game down and then re-opened it, as soon as you got to the hold-up, it would have cleared. I always though that jams were disabled for Special Transport, I know I run into them but I put that down to using a lot of traffic mods.

[AoD_lexandro]

You should report this on the official forums. Detours should not affect ST jobs as its a pre-defined route you must take.

[󠀡󠀡]

I have had a problem with de-tours.

Both ways to my destinations were blocked with a road collision, I could not reach my destination, it was impossible, I was locked in @SCS yes, it needs tuning.

I managed to get around the cop standing there, and had a nice empty road for a while, even honked horn to say cheers.

[Silverbiker]

I do a quick save, reload game, and hey presto!! its gone. I do the same when trying to get out of busy junctions, traffic jams etc. Not realistic I know but it saves losing job/time

[Purrge]

Originally posted by Shadowcaster:

If you had closed the game down and then re-opened it, as soon as you got to the hold-up, it would have cleared. I always though that jams were disabled for Special Transport, I know I run into them but I put that down to using a lot of traffic mods.

Oh yeah, could have done that, but then again; a detour should not have been there during special transport delivery. I assumed it to be a part of the job, and thought i had to wait.

[Purrge]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

You should report this on the official forums. Detours should not affect ST jobs as its a pre-defined route you must take.

Yeah...I'll take it up on the official forum later, thanks.

[Purrge]

Originally posted by darren:

I have had a problem with de-tours.

Both ways to my destinations were blocked with a road collision, I could not reach my destination, it was impossible, I was locked in @SCS yes, it needs tuning.

I managed to get around the cop standing there, and had a nice empty road for a while, even honked horn to say cheers.

Hehe, there was no space that i could go around; lucky you ;)

[Purrge]

Originally posted by Silverbiker:

I do a quick save, reload game, and hey presto!! its gone. I do the same when trying to get out of busy junctions, traffic jams etc. Not realistic I know but it saves losing job/time

Yeah, neat trick, might use it or might just keep those detours turned off.

[Rxx2008]

Wow! I encountered the problem even 5 years later, the escort just went through the detour, and I had no way to get through. I'm now just stuck here!

[Silverbiker]

I have disabled detours and use this mod:
https://www.modhub.us/american-truck-simulator-mods/daniels-ats-random-events-v151-1
Far more realistic and as the name says, totally random.
Stuff from roadworks car breakdowns, roadside breakdowns, objects in roadway etc.
Been using it since 1.49 with no issues whatsoever.
IMO the detour idea with how SCS do the maps is totally unrealistic in the most part as most with detours you can't make the delivery in time.

Edit: Thank god I found an Extended Delivery Time mod but I still have the detours disabled