Fines - not impressed with this one.

[ozbossman17]

(And of course I can't say where it happened just now as I am not in the game)

Ok, checked.... Going EAST out of Innsbruk to Klagenfurt am Worthersee.
(Sorry if not spelt correctly, a lot of screen switching just happened trying to get them right.)

That lovely windy WINDY road.

I was approaching the toll gates and a message FLASHED on the screen something about "Commercial trucking not allowed in this area UNLESS........"
and it vanished.

I am a SLOW reader. So these quick messages are annoying.

Hmmmm.....

Ok, but I have a valid job... Let's go.
Get to the toll gate, paid an amazing amount of money, but hey....
Went through.

A few seconds later!

FINE! $1400 EU or something.

NOT FAIR!
Ok, it is all just "funny money" but IRL that wouldn't happen - would it?
I would be told clearly and if I wanted to go the "fine" would be part of the toll.

It was fun driving up there though.
Got to the lookout and the cut-scene at the top of the mountain range.

[Wolfgang]

IRL they wouldn't even let you drive there. No matter how much money you would pay them. Commercial trucking is just not allowed there.

[MagnusA]

I am also a slow reader. What I do is to try to be quick pausing the game (F1). Then I get enough time to read (and understand) the message.

btw, that "... prohibited unless...". In the game you are allowed to deliver to companies *within* the restricted area but using that restricted road as a drive-through will cost you a nefty fine. Personally I see that nefty fine as bribing the guard officers to let me through. :-)

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by MagnusA:

IPersonally I see that nefty fine as bribing the guard officers to let me through. :-)

All fines are just there to incovenience poor people. For rich people it is just what you have to pay to be allowed to do it.

[The Pitts]

Originally posted by MagnusA:

In the game you are allowed to deliver to companies *within* the restricted area

Although there aren't any such in ETS2, only in ATS (in one instance).

[MirkoC407]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

Although there aren't any such in ETS2, only in ATS (in one instance).

Sure there are - or is at least one...

[MagnusA]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

Originally posted by MagnusA:

In the game you are allowed to deliver to companies *within* the restricted area

Although there aren't any such in ETS2, only in ATS (in one instance).

I cannot recall any in ETS2 at the moment but I am sure that if it is any they world work like in ATS. Somehow you have to get there with your big semi trailer (if there are any).

I cannot check right now but I am pretty sure it is the same text in ETS2 and ATS.

[Snowstorm]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

IRL they wouldn't even let you drive there. No matter how much money you would pay them. Commercial trucking is just not allowed there.

What about riding a trailer-less (free-roaming) semi-truck through that road, would it trigger the warning and the fine as well? Not a commerical purpose technically

[The Pitts]

You can drive through bobtail, but the Grossglockner is more fun hauling a long trailer (and swallowing the fine).

[The Pitts]

Originally posted by MirkoC407:

Sure there are - or is at least one...

Put me out of my misery then Mirko, I cannot think of any other routes in vanilla ETS2 that are so restricted, let alone ones with a company depot within the boundary of the restriction.

[MirkoC407]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

Put me out of my misery then Mirko, I cannot think of any other routes in vanilla ETS2 that are so restricted, let alone ones with a company depot within the boundary of the restriction.

Großglockner for sure. If there are other I don't know. Am not too much into ETS2 recently so I might have missed one. Have never seen one with a company inside the gates though on either side of the Atlantic, although this for ATS would not mean they don't exist but just I did not deliver there until now. Usually I drove them illegally in transit and payed the penalty.

[The Pitts]

Ah, OK, so we got a bit lost somewhere along the line - I was referring explicitly to your comment about businesses inside the restricted areas and you were just talking about the areas themselves. FWIW the one depot inside a restricted area that I know of is in ATS where there is a Plaster & Sons inside Glacier National Park in NW Montana near Kalispell.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Snowstorm:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

IRL they wouldn't even let you drive there. No matter how much money you would pay them. Commercial trucking is just not allowed there.

What about riding a trailer-less (free-roaming) semi-truck through that road, would it trigger the warning and the fine as well? Not a commerical purpose technically

If you are free roaming then you only have to pay the toll.

[Nimir-Raj]

You might be a slow reader, but you read the most important part of the message. "Commercial trucking not allowed in this area"