make trucks go up hill faster?

[MrWiggly [TLS]]

I have been having huge problems going up hill, i will drop from 80kph to about 15-25kph and they are not even steep hills.

i know trucks would strain up hill but i thought it would not be THAT hard.

i am using a controller, but the keyboard gave the same issues too.
and i am using the full auto gear box as i dont have enough buttons to bother with gears and my driving is bad enough already.

it is also worth noting i am still using employer provided trucks, i havent bought my own yet.

is this simply an issue with low quality trucks? or is it something else?

is there anything i can change in the settings to make it better? its killing my delivery times, as i am driving in slovakia and every trip has at least one slow uphill slog.

[Silverbiker]

its all about gears. The steeper the hill, the lower the gear. This enables you to keep the revs up. As you say you cant assign manual gears to your controller you will suffer. I had the same probs early in game. Bought my own truck asap. Fitted it with 18 speed box and had no probs with hills. I posted a shot somewhere with me pulling an 80 ton loco, albeit it slowly, up an incline with a volvo 540 with 18 speed box. As I said, and I am sure others may confirm, its not bout just horsepower its using the gears properly.
Try setting the box to sequential auto, it may help. You just set one button for drive and one for reverse. It should then change as required to keep up the revs. Then again, I may be wrong and someone will correct me and give you the right info.
Also use the extended delivery time mod to help take the pressure off those deliverys.

[ᵁᴷJezz]

Originally posted by Okottekoneko:

it is also worth noting i am still using employer provided trucks, i havent bought my own yet.

is this simply an issue with low quality trucks? or is it something else?

Thats because most employer provided trucks have smaller engines, Wait till you have your own and fitted the most powerfull engine to it...
Also, goto settings and turn off the speed limiter, you can make up some time down hills and on the flat then, but watch for speed cams and corners.

[JackBassV]

Originally posted by Silverbiker:

Try setting the box to sequential auto, it may help. You just set one button for drive and one for reverse. It should then change as required to keep up the revs. Then again, I may be wrong and someone will correct me and give you the right info.

Don't you mean one button to change up and one to change down? Sort of like a motorbike or F1 cars. Watch the rev counter and change down when the revs drop below 900-1000rpm,
EDIT: Sorry, missed the word auto! I use sequential manual.

Anyway, the main problem is small engines with lack of torque. Some of the trucks have a problem leaving the ferry ports! Once you get your own truck, make sure you get one with at least 500bhp, as these also have the most torque and more imprortantly, a larger rev range.

Even in real life, a truck engines max torque is made between 1000 and 1500 rpm, unlike a road car where it's between 6000 and 8000rpm (a masarati engine tops out at 9500rpm!)

[MrWiggly [TLS]]

is there a way to tune the auto gearbox so it revs harder before changing up a gear?
because that would make my life a LOT easier.

[browndog]

Select "realistic auto" inthe settings. Then the change pattern will alter depending on the amount of throttle used.

[MrWiggly [TLS]]

so with realistic auto it will rev harder between grears when full throttle?

[Sirrus]

Even the most powerful Volvo with manual/sequential shifting, pulling 25 tons behind won't go fast uphill. For example, on that hill up north from Innsbruck, top speed I could achieve at slowest point was 39 kph in Volvo with most powerful engine and excavator (25t). For comparison, my DAF goes 24 kph there. Scania - 31, MAN/Majestic - 28/27.
I tried to use auto gearbox, but results were worse, so I prefer keyboard and mouse, if I don't have wheel at hand.
Beware, weaker engines, with less than 2000+ Nm of torque, may perform much worse in autogearbox on steep inclines, resulting in stalling. Been there, done that. So avoid weak engines, hills, and heavy loads. There is no rule of thumb, but if engine falls under 2000 Nm of torque, I'd say go for load less than 15 tons, and stay away from mountains. Or stick to old Volvo - they don't have engine weaker than 2600 nm of torque. Weakest Iveco (1300 Nm of torque), heaviest load, and mountains aren't best friends. It's possible to go there, but forget about fuel economy and speed.

[Miggs]

If you want to go uphill faster, then pick jobs with lighter loads.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Miggs:

If you want to go uphill faster, then pick jobs with lighter loads.

^ this is the only realistic way...

[Nite69]

Picking jobs with lighter loads or run the game setting in sequential so you have better control of the gears, all the torque is in the first 1 - 5 gears.

when you play in Quickjob mode stick to lighter loads since you don't know the specs of the company vehicle, but once you get a 700+ HP engine for your own truck then any load will be fine.

[malc4caz]

Its all about gearing keep the revs around 17,000 giving a good kick up the hills