I am a real HGV driver with ETS experience, ask me questions

[awdhot]

You can ask in English or Russian, I have obtained a license after playing ETS and now have like 3 years of experience driving a truck in real life in Scandinavia

[Underscore_101_3]

What will the weather be like tomorrow?

[awdhot]

Originally posted by Underscore_101_3:

What will the weather be like tomorrow?

It depends

[Jdwarfer]

So is your experience in ETS2 made things easier to get your license?
I mean other than self confidence of course.

[TransylScania V8]

what make of truck they got you driving also why can't I back up B-Double trailers?

[Rob]

So much of ETS is unrealistic compared to real life trucking . As an EX trucker myself I know they tried to simulate a lot to be realistic and made a good game but a whole load of things are totally different

[🦊 Hermit]

How realistic are the depots that you have to deliver to, specifically in terms of limited space to manoeuvre?

I remember when I first played this game, and saw some of the crazy tight spaces that we were expected to drive around (looking at you Trameri), I figured that no industry would be quite so silly and cruel as to treat their drivers/contractors in that fashion. Surely the ultra-tight depots in the game are just exaggerations for gameplay purposes, to add some extra challenge, and in real life places would be built with more space surrounding them to take drivers' needs into account.

Then ATS came out, and I found that in many of the depots there space was even more limited, and delivery angles even tighter. This seemed to be crossing the line into silly space for me, so I made a thread on the ATS forums mentioning it, and asking if people thought it was going too far - if it was sacrificing realism just for an artificial sense of challenge and difficulty. But to my surprise, a number of real truck drivers on that forum responded saying that actually, the depots were very realistic and that space in depots was indeed squeezed to such degrees in real life.

So coming full circle now, I'll ask the same about ETS. Have you found in your work that depots really do limit how much space you have to manoeuvre as the game depicts, and do such tight confines really exist to make fitting trucks in such a struggle?

[Underscore_101_3]

I know you're not asking me, but I do have some experience irl with all kinds of pick up and drop off points, ranging from small companies to really large warehouses, and to me it feels like the game depicts is quite good overall, with some exceptions where in the game you'll see like a forklift or tractor parked in places to make it more difficult, irl you won't really have that, a forklift operator wouldn't usually leave their forklift in such ways, or move it when they see you, similar goes for other truckers, they'll move it, or you wait for them to leave a yard because they're just finishing paperwork.

Most of my experience is in the Netherlands though, which is quite dense.
As for the Trameri example, one may come accross things like that at grocery stores or DYI box stores for example.

[peter]

Originally posted by Underscore_101_3:

Most of my experience is in the Netherlands though, which is quite dense.
As for the Trameri example, one may come accross things like that at grocery stores or DYI box stores for example.

This I believe is the core of the problem, high population density makes space cost money. My experience was many years ago in the UK which has similar problems. Here in Spain where the population is more spread out I have noticed that warehouses generally are built far enough outside of towns to enable cheaper space and therefore better turning/off loading conditions for lorries.

[Rivaldman]

Will there be an ETS academy and worldwide competition like GT of Playstation?

[awdhot]

Originally posted by Jdwarfer:

So is your experience in ETS2 made things easier to get your license?
I mean other than self confidence of course.

yes, backing up and manoeuvring to a parking space in ETS is very much similar to real life, and it came in hand

[awdhot]

Originally posted by TransylScania:

what make of truck they got you driving also why can't I back up B-Double trailers?

Mostly Scanias, some Man, and got to drive a Volvo once
I didn't get a question about B-Double, but I also haven't driven one, only seen one being driven, also by girls :)

[awdhot]

Originally posted by Rob:

So much of ETS is unrealistic compared to real life trucking . As an EX trucker myself I know they tried to simulate a lot to be realistic and made a good game but a whole load of things are totally different

It is quite realistic, cabin wobbeling, long, boring drives are present in the game

[awdhot]

Originally posted by 🦊 Hermit:

How realistic are the depots that you have to deliver to, specifically in terms of limited space to manoeuvre?

I remember when I first played this game, and saw some of the crazy tight spaces that we were expected to drive around (looking at you Trameri), I figured that no industry would be quite so silly and cruel as to treat their drivers/contractors in that fashion. Surely the ultra-tight depots in the game are just exaggerations for gameplay purposes, to add some extra challenge, and in real life places would be built with more space surrounding them to take drivers' needs into account.

Then ATS came out, and I found that in many of the depots there space was even more limited, and delivery angles even tighter. This seemed to be crossing the line into silly space for me, so I made a thread on the ATS forums mentioning it, and asking if people thought it was going too far - if it was sacrificing realism just for an artificial sense of challenge and difficulty. But to my surprise, a number of real truck drivers on that forum responded saying that actually, the depots were very realistic and that space in depots was indeed squeezed to such degrees in real life.

So coming full circle now, I'll ask the same about ETS. Have you found in your work that depots really do limit how much space you have to manoeuvre as the game depicts, and do such tight confines really exist to make fitting trucks in such a struggle?

The depots in the game are all standard and you can fit in them all. In reality I've been to depots that are not fit for a 17-meter truck and trailer.
I work in Finland, where most of the depots are built to accept a 25-meter train and there it is very easy, but sometimes a lot of manoeuvring is required. The other ramps that I approach are very tight, they are built exactly to fit a 17-meter truck and trailer (17 meter is a standard Truck and Trailer length) so the simulation is very accurate. Yes, you drive from fence to the wall as much as you can and that is very common. One time I had to approach a ramp that was not built for a 17-meter and so I tilted my truck at 90 degrees for that.

[awdhot]

Originally posted by Underscore_101_3:

I know you're not asking me, but I do have some experience irl with all kinds of pick up and drop off points, ranging from small companies to really large warehouses, and to me it feels like the game depicts is quite good overall, with some exceptions where in the game you'll see like a forklift or tractor parked in places to make it more difficult, irl you won't really have that, a forklift operator wouldn't usually leave their forklift in such ways, or move it when they see you, similar goes for other truckers, they'll move it, or you wait for them to leave a yard because they're just finishing paperwork.

Most of my experience is in the Netherlands though, which is quite dense.
As for the Trameri example, one may come accross things like that at grocery stores or DYI box stores for example.

Agree, they normally don't, but if I have experienced this at the construction sites, where some construction items, like bricks or excavator things have been placed randomly on the place and you have to drive around them.
Thanks for your comment.

[awdhot]

Originally posted by ժʝ:

Was the grass as green as expected on the other side?

It is much worse. In the game you can pause or drop. IRL you can't stop at the middle of the road, that is not permissible. :(