Can a large garage get 100% efficiency on its own?

[StDrake]

My best garage so far gets up to 75% without my own jobs. I wonder if getting 100% is even possible or is alternating myself between 5 garages the only way to get that 5*100% achievement?

[Wolfgang]

They can get this on their own. Just have it full. And the rest is just a bit of RNG.

[StDrake]

Wondering if there's any more to the "have it full" than what I'm doing already - 5 trucks, 5 drivers, I even added in 3 trailers: 2 container carrier and 1 fridge. Wondering if there's anything else I can do to boost it. More trailers? Specific trailers?

[Wolfgang]

I did it without any trailers. So trailers are not needed. Just have your drivers skills maxed out.

[Silverbiker]

Don't bother with trailers. It reduces the range of jobs your drivers can take and more than likely travel back empty and cost you or they can wait days for work.
As above, once your drivers have maxxed their skills, they will be earning plenty and reduce the chance of returning empty.
They don't need micromanaging (unless that's your thing) as they will skill up on their own

[jamesglen7]

Having five large garages at 100% will earn you an achievement. When your garage operates at 100% it's best not to mess with it unless you just want to experiment with changes.

[coffee spoons]

I have 15 large garages and 8 small ones. There are 33 drivers including me. Only one garage has five drivers and that always runs at 100%. Some of the garages run at very low profit margins (4% for Plovdiv today) but I noticed that Ajaccio, a large garage with only three drivers, is at !00% today.

[The Pitts]

You just have to be patient and wait for your drivers to level up and then that achievement will pop. FWIW I have 34 large garages with only four drivers each that run at 100% productivity most of the time so with five drivers you will eventually do it easily.

[Dark & Realistic™ Nessie]

I'm ALMOST sure you don't need even a full garage to reach 100% efficience. I'll take my experience with ATS as my ETS2 profile is already "spoiled" by its age. I have all garages available, upgraded to 5 slots (just for the sake of spending money), but with only one driver + truck each, and with hard economy mod enabled, and the oldest ones are already reaching 100%.

[StDrake]

I guess my drivers aren't that good then even with almost max everything except eco and ontime. Welp, thanks for the heads up then. Wondering if I'll get those 100%s before they can totally max out. Those last levels seem quite slow on them

[MirkoC407]

100% can only be achieved by high driver level of all 5 there, and some locations seem to work better than others because they have still several drivers on 3rd and 4th highest level scoring consistently better than others with drivers on 2nd highest level. 100% however requires usually all drivers being at least in the 3 highest levels and averaging close to 2nd highest.

[The Pitts]

Originally posted by Dark & Realistic™ Care Bear:

with only one driver + truck each, and with hard economy mod enabled, and the oldest ones are already reaching 100%

I would guess that that mod changes the amount of money required to achieve the 100% and that therefore your experience doesn't necessarily apply in relation to the vanilla game where the 100% requires the drivers in a garage to earn €300K in the calendar week which with the vanilla economy would be highly unlikely for a single driver.

[Capt. Carrot]

Originally posted by Silverbiker:

Don't bother with trailers. It reduces the range of jobs your drivers can take and more than likely travel back empty and cost you or they can wait days for work.
As above, once your drivers have maxxed their skills, they will be earning plenty and reduce the chance of returning empty.
They don't need micromanaging (unless that's your thing) as they will skill up on their own

It doesn't reduce the range of jobs that drivers can take as they will take whatever loads are available. if there is no load for a trailer then they will just take a "freight market" load where they pull the other companies trailer.

And drivers are hard coded to fail to find jobs 10% of the time, there is no evidence that owned trailers increases that percentage.

Also matching owned trailer types to the freight leaving the depot they are based at can actually INCREASE payouts. If a city has a lot of heavy cargo loads available then putting low loader and drop-deck trailers in the garage means that those, more lucrative, loads are prioritised by your drivers when they are available.

[Capt. Carrot]

Originally posted by StDrake:

I guess my drivers aren't that good then even with almost max everything except eco and ontime. Welp, thanks for the heads up then. Wondering if I'll get those 100%s before they can totally max out. Those last levels seem quite slow on them

Once all 5 drivers at a garage are fully maxed out on skills 100% efficiency for the garage will eventually come

[Madkine]

Originally posted by Capt. Carrot:

And drivers are hard coded to fail to find jobs 10% of the time, there is no evidence that owned trailers increases that percentage.

There is significant evidence that an owned trailer that the driver does not have full skills to use can cause the process to glitch out and prevent a hired driver from working at all.