Changing Trucks

[morgoth13]

So I have a truck(and me) based in a garage. I drive for a while and I do a bunch of work. Then I drive to a different garage where I have another truck parked. I pull into the garage and go to the menu. I select the truck parked there and click on "drive this truck." The game asks me: "do you want to change to this truck and reassign your current truck to this garage?" Makes perfect sense, I say yes. Now that truck is parked in that garage, but I've been magically teleported 2,500 km away to my old garage with the new truck without ever being asked about that minor detail.

So fine, I'll teleport back to the garage I should be at. Now I don't have a truck at all, and the one I selected to drive is 2,500 km away. Go to my driver, select "choose truck" and my only option is to buy a brand new one from all the dealers in Europe.

Is this how it should work? I mean obviously this is how it does work and with enough fiddling I can eventually get into the truck I chose at the garage I chose to drive it from, but is there actually a rational reason behind why it should work this way? Or is there another more sensible way to change trucks I haven't come across yet?

[The Pitts]

I agree that the scenario is confusing (and the end result largely illogical - it doesn't work that way if you buy a new truck from a dealer and choose to drive it away) but the only way to do it without teleporting requires you and the truck you would like to drive to be in the same garage slot. In the situation you describe you also need to move your HQ to the garage at which you are located in order to avoid any teleportation.

[MirkoC407]

Or quick travel back there, although this drops you unfortunately at the repair shop and not your company garage...

[Briannospam]

I think a few important pieces of information are missing in @morgoth13's description of the course of events?

There are several ways to teleport:
1: Using the driver manager move himself to another garage, thereby changing the hq to this garage.
I think this is the method @morgoth13 has used? - and that he has even moved himself to an empty space in the garage in question?
He apparently forgot that afterwards he also had to move the truck to the empty slot below him in the new hq?

2: Using fast travel, you can move yourself and your truck to other cities.

3. Using the Dev console you can teleport yourself and the truck to anywhere on the map.

@morgoth13: Notice the differences in the 3 teleport methods, only with methods 2 and 3 you automatically get the truck with you.

[NiceGuy]

You get always teleported to the garage you are assigned to with the truck to which you switched if you switch truck.
To achieve what you wished, you need to first switch yourself to the new garage (driver manager). When switching your character to a new garage you either need to select a free truck from this garage (mission accomplished in your case) or put your character into a free and empty space of the new garage.

[morgoth13]

I just wanted to take my truck to where the one I wanted was parked and then get in the new truck and drive away, leaving the old one behind. But apparently this is not something the game is designed to do directly.

@Briannospam is right, since it sent me to my assigned garage after switching, I realized I needed to be assigned to the new garage. This put me in the right place but doesn't bring the truck along with me. I didn't remember that by changing to it the new truck got reassigned to the garage I was assigned to at the time because everything is based around the garage slots.

The least awkward solution seems to be to drive there, and then reassign yourself to the garage you're now sitting in, and then change to the truck. I'm not sure if that will send the truck you were driving back to its original garage or put it in the new one, but switching those around later as needed isn't as much of an issue. The part where I temporarily ended up at the other end of the continent was what annoyed me.

[Briannospam]

For another time, I would recommend you to use teleportation from the developer console.
Using it, you can place yourself and your truck exactly where you want, anywhere on the map... even off-road, but it will be at serious risk of falling through the map.
https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=61852

However, you should be aware that it is no longer enough to just press F9 to teleport... Now you have to press CTRL+F9

Furthermore, it is not possible to teleport while doing a WoT job.