New trucker that sucks needing help please

[IcewaterCreek®]

• Can you charge good cells(batteries) at some station that have 80% life to them but are at 30% charge?
  If so... where? If not, why do we care their health life when once the charge is gone.. then dispose of? Also where do you dispose of dead batteries if we can charge them at a station?
  
• Is there a difference between the green or blue cells(again batteries) other than one is 250 charge strength and one is 150?
  {They seem to fit and work anywhere there is a cell needed so thus why the colors}
  
• Is there a way to understand lanes and where I can drive?
  Seems if I do not stay in the lanes to get to my drop off or pick up, which i have driven around in circles trying to obey arrows and such, how come I am getting hammered with fines??
  I hit no one, going 40mph tops which is sllloooowww, and still fined for bad driving. Once I was actually in a lane, a truck came up, just cut me off... hit my side in doing so... and I got fined? That makes no sense. He should get hammered and pay me for this aggressive driving right?
  
• Lastly, how and where do I use gas cans, because I can't carry but one, and ran out of fuel and had to restart because you would it would have a fuel cap arrow or something to guide me? Also, would think internally a tank toggle, have a switch tank feature and it seems to not have that?? Yet it has cell A and Cell B which i do not understand what if you have A but low B... what happens? So why not multi tanks that you can toggle. Maybe premature on this last one.. what else is new... because maybe it is a long haul upgrade? Thanks everyone, I am horrible at this and really enjoy it.

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

Can you charge good cells(batteries) that have 80% life to them but are at 30% charge? If so... where?

No. You can't. You're supposed to sell the spent and buy new ones. They're sold in most shops, check local vendors after every haul.

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

Is there a difference between the green or blue cells other than one is 250 charge strength and one is 100 or 150 I think?

No. They can hold more electricity, but they are more expensive. They're good for selling, and you can use them in a pinch, but you want to stick to the basic ones. Outside of needing replacement earlier ('cause they have less charge), there's 0 difference.

There's a bunch of stuff you can do to reduce your battery consumption, such as shutting down your cab and external lights when not needed.

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

Is there a way to understand lanes and where I can drive?
Seems if I do not stay in the lanes to get to my drop off or pick up, which i have driven around in circles trying to obey arrows and such, how come I am getting hammered with fines??

You can drive anywhere, mostly through the roads with the signs facing your way. You can still get slapped with "careless driving" if you hit pebbles, and if your trailer gets hit with pebbles but not the cab, you won't get an alert, but you'll still get a careless driving.

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

Lastly, how and where do I use gas cans

The fuel cap is on the outside and lateral of your truck. I have personally never used a fuel can as I just tend to top up wherever I come across a fuel station.

One thing to keep in mind to help your autonomy: at the moment, the game treats being in "cruise" as if you were slamming full throttle on the engines, in both terms of heat and fuel consumption. Heat is not a problem in recommended, but get used to cruising at ~100ish mph, letting go of the throttle about a km before you reach whatever you want to reach so you coast in and reduce your consumption even further.

[M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o]

you can repair your hull in the upgrade shop. it's just called upgrade shop because you can get some tuning for your truck there.

[IcewaterCreek®]

Originally posted by M͕͕͗͗i͕͕͗͗y͕͕͗͗o:

you can repair your hull in the upgrade shop. it's just called upgrade shop because you can get some tuning for your truck there.

Finally after a long delay sitting in front of the door, literally 3 minutes, it opened. Gave me a free repair. Thank you both so much!