tips for beginner?

[Burger king employee]

what to do in the beginning? when making loans?
general tips ...

[Nimir-Raj]

General tip: Don't take out loans.

Level up 1 for all except Economy.

Work on either long distance or ADR once you have lvl 1 for the rest.

It is far better to build up your money to buy your first truck, and slowly upgrade it as you have the money and levels to do so.

However if you really must get a truck ASAP visit the dealer, check the price of the truck. Get a loan that will leave you with at least 10k spare after buying the truck and try not take out mulitple loans if you can avoid it. You want the spare cash so that you don't end up in the negative while on jobs and need to be sure the jobs you are taking will exceed the daily repayments.

Don't botrher with fuel economy leveling. If you use realistic fuel consumption the level it worthless. Don't waste a level on it until the rest are all maxed out.

[The Pitts]

I would argue that it is worth putting two points in Just-In-Time Delivery once you've got a point in everything other than Eco because that unlocks urgent deliveries.

[Nimir-Raj]

I think it's better to wait until you own your own truck. I've seen many people complain that they take the urgent ones with the quick jobs only to find their truck is seriously underpowered for the load and arrive late.

I've never personally had that issue, but it is something to consider.

[Oz Gaming]

What I did was to get All 6 Long Distance Skills First. That way you can get jobs and drive anywhere on the map.

[Rev Counter]

Check each box once (apart from eco), then another in just-in-time, then all of long distance.
I'd take out the 400k loan, get a truck, then save for a couple drivers and their trucks. Upgrade your own garage before buying new ones.

[m61a1]

Personally I took out loans in 100k increments instead of the 400k. That way I could repay the individual loans and take a bite out of it. I'm aware that you'll pay more daily, but it feels like I'm making progress. Last play thru I did quick jobs until I had enough, it allowed me to spend more time and figure which truck I truly liked best. When you start making enough you can have a garage just for your personal trucks lol.

[Shredder]

Take out the max loan when it's available and buy your own truck. Your freight jobs will more than pay back the loans. You'll see what works and what doesn't when you start playing. This game is really about what truck you like to drive. Skill poiints are not useful at all. just put them wherever you want. It's not important.

[Pablo]

Long distance first

[kingpinn]

My method to get my business up and running relatively quickly is to do the following:

- Use quick jobs until I unlock the highest loan amount.
- Get the loan and buy 2 trucks, 1 for me and 1 for an employee
- Hire an employee and set training of employee to long distance (once they max Long distance I then switch them to ADR and when that's maxed out, I switch to balanced)
- Make sure that I earn at least 10 thousand per day on my own jobs until the staff earn enough for me to not have to earn as much per day.

The money starts to roll in and within a reasonable amount of game time, I can buy another truck and employ another person. I continue this until I have 1 large garage that is full of trucks and employees. This garage acts as a battery to fund all of my adventures and future garage/truck acquisitions.


Pretty soon you'll have garages and employees generating enough cash to enable you to never have to worry about money ever again.

When buying garages, I only buy another once I have maxed out the last one I purchased, this way I maximise the productivity and earnings of each garage before moving on to the next. This also means you don't have to go back to upgrade the garages, employ staff and purchase trucks later, which can be a bit tedious.

As for skills, I max out all of the ADR, High Value, Urgent and Fragile disciplines first (ADR being the very first one I max out) and then Long distance last. This is because I have found that I can do multiple short distance jobs in one day that earn more money per KM and receive higher XP points until I have maxed out my skills, than doing fewer long distance jobs. Also with the Long distance trips, there is a higher chance of damaging the cargo, and during the Early stages of the career, you cannot afford to lose money on damaged or late cargo.

I hope that helps

[Like A Sir]

Ur first truck should be the Volvo Fh16 classic sleeper as it is the best and strongest truck for the early game, u can pull anything with it.

[Fixxxer]

It's not the best looking truck by any means nor the cheapest option available. But for getting through the early game the FH16 classic is the truck to have as the entry level model has the most powerful engine you can get. You'll need that to bully some of the heavier loads towards the alley dock on time. Save if you can be patient enough for your first truck if you do it with loans you land up in a cycle of working just to pay the bank back.

[Rev Counter]

Originally posted by Shredder:

This game is really about what truck you like to drive. Skill poiints are not useful at all. just put them wherever you want. It's not important.

Trucks are half the game, it isn't anything really without trailers. Put a skill pt in each category first to unlock them all, it is much more fun with varied cargo :)

[thedarthfader]

First check the key bindings so you know every control in game, some come in handy others not as much

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by Gnome Kappa:

what to do in the beginning? when making loans?
general tips ...

General Tip: ALWAYS take out the maximum loans at first to get started as quickly as possible. I.E. - Keep working to unlock the the largest loans, take them and buy a truck. Then pay it off as you hire drivers, expand garages and hire drivers.
It's incredibly stupid not to, since loans save you REAL WORLD TIME. I.E. something of actual value to you, a real human with a real life. You can get into a personally owned truck much sooner and quickly with hired drivers will no longer have any need for loans.
Also, since there are also no permanent negative impacts on gameplay from having negative equity, it doesn't even matter if you run out of "money", you can always earn more, and the loans are never so prohibitive that you can't eventually pay them off. However, it's easy to stay out of the red if you don't spend wildely at first before you've earned some money and hired drivers.
ALWAYS, ALWAYS take the big loans at the beginning.

[The Pitts]

Originally posted by Thogmar:

It's incredibly stupid not to, since loans save you REAL WORLD TIME

How so?? Not everyone that plays this game wants to own their own trucking empire, some prefer to just drive. Quick jobs do just fine if that is your approach.