Drivers won't work for some days

[RaMb0RO]

Hello. So a friend has this problem with some drivers.
Some one them are all good, they work, but the others, they just won't work. And they have already one week (in game) since they don't work.
Any reason why?

Thank you:)

[Wolfgang]

Sure that they aren't working and not just on a contract?

[Briannospam]

Originally posted by RaMb0RO:

Hello. So a friend has this problem with some drivers.
Some one them are all good, they work, but the others, they just won't work. And they have already one week (in game) since they don't work.
Any reason why?

Thank you:)

1. Do they have a truck?
2. Have they swapped trucks with other drivers while one or both of them were on a job?

[RaMb0RO]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Sure that they aren't working and not just on a contract?

What do you mean?

[RaMb0RO]

Originally posted by Briannospam:

Originally posted by RaMb0RO:

Hello. So a friend has this problem with some drivers.
Some one them are all good, they work, but the others, they just won't work. And they have already one week (in game) since they don't work.
Any reason why?

Thank you:)

1. Do they have a truck?
2. Have they swapped trucks with other drivers while one or both of them were on a job?

1. Yes
2. They didn't event start a job:(

[Nelle]

I had this happened once when I put fuel tank trailers in a garage full of new recruited drivers. None of them had ADR 3, so they didn't start working.

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

This happened to me once when I put a new driver into a garage where there was one other employee and myself. The new driver never took on any work and the existing resident stopped working. When I moved myself to another garage both started working normally. It was very strange, I figured maybe I had really bad BO :-)

[Briannospam]

Originally posted by RaMb0RO:

Originally posted by Briannospam:

1. Do they have a truck?
2. Have they swapped trucks with other drivers while one or both of them were on a job?

1. Yes
2. They didn't event start a job:(

Note this from @Nelle:

Originally posted by Nelle:

I had this happened once when I put fuel tank trailers in a garage full of new recruited drivers. None of them had ADR 3, so they didn't start working.

I can't remember if employees will choose borrowed trailers if they don't have training for their own trailers?

But as far as I remember, employees will use borrowed trailers if there are no jobs for their own trailers.
But I remember that if an employee has driven out with his own trailer, and cannot find a job for this own trailer for the trip home, he will return empty unless there are other trailer types available in the home garage and there are jobs for these.
- And yes, if there are several different private public trailers in a garage, the employee can switch between these trailers for the journey home.

Therefore, I also think that employees will take borrowed trailers if there are no own trailer jobs that suit his education.

However, as @nelle suggests: If there are public trailers in the garage, it is probably a good idea to check whether the employee has training to use them.

[kaki_gamet]

@Brian - unfortunately hired drivers will try 100% to use an available trailer in their home garage, and if that trailer doesn't suit their skills or doesn't have jobs in the city they are, they will do nothing forever.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by kaki_gamet:

@Brian - unfortunately hired drivers will try 100% to use an available trailer in their home garage, and if that trailer doesn't suit their skills or doesn't have jobs in the city they are, they will do nothing forever.

Interesting. That I did not know.

[kaki_gamet]

@Wolfgang - if do you have the time and are willing, it can be tested reasonably quickly. Place a single Logger trailer in Magdeburg set as public, together with 5 drivers and trucks (any level) then advance in-game time about a month (just to be sure they are over with their previous jobs) and will see that no one of them ever did anything with it. They should still have their last job(s) recorded but day will be matching with the swap to that trailer. To say more, their last job should be a return trip to Magdeburg with a job but not that trailer, or most likely an empty return then stop, idle rolling dices for a job that cannot spawn ^^'

If do check game log too, instead of the usual

<WARNING> Driver job generation failed. Returning empty.

message will find a lots of

<WARNING> Driver job generation failed.

ones. This latter one is recorded when drivers fail to find a starting job from their home garage. It is so since v1.36 that is when I started to experiment with trailers.

[nomelegal3g]

Originally posted by kaki_gamet:

@Brian - unfortunately hired drivers will try 100% to use an available trailer in their home garage, and if that trailer doesn't suit their skills or doesn't have jobs in the city they are, they will do nothing forever.

Thank you, i have tried everything on internet, but anybody besides you said anything about it. I spent more than 4 hours trying to solve it

[Madkine]

Simplest solution. Make all trailers private.