stack smoke

[Hayden]

i really think that we need some stack smoke in the next updates that matches when the truck shifts an when you are hauling a heavy load up a hill it will be blowing an amount of coal altered by how heavy the load is. thanks hope this will help with ideas for next updates ;)

[radium]

the truck manufacturers do not want this.

[Hayden]

why

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by johndeerefarmer82:

why

Because it is illegal in the US, that's why...

The EPA made it illegal for commercial trucks to 'roll coal', with hefty fines for anyone caught doing it. This is in real life of course, but since real-world trucks are represented in this sim, SCS had to get permission to use them and part of that agreement was that their trucks would not be misrepresented in the sim.
Therefore, no smoke in real life equals no smoke in the sim.

[Trucker_71]

In real life, there's no more smoke coming from stacks.

[XR6FA]

Trucks must be different in Australia,because ours have very light wisps off grayish smoke when under load or when first starting off from traffic lights,oh buy the way Farm sim has exhaust the manufactures don't have a problem with that

[Trucker_71]

The EPA are zealots.

[Robinicus]

Farm machinery does not fall under either CARB or EPA on-road guidelines; they fall under the industrial or EPA Tier I, II, III or IV guidelines which are much less restrictive on particulate; although T IV is starting to get fairly close to on-highway standards.

[tox]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓅𝓉 𝐹𝓊𝓏𝓏𝓎:

Originally posted by johndeerefarmer82:

why

Because it is illegal in the US, that's why...

The EPA made it illegal for commercial trucks to 'roll coal', with hefty fines for anyone caught doing it. This is in real life of course, but since real-world trucks are represented in this sim, SCS had to get permission to use them and part of that agreement was that their trucks would not be misrepresented in the sim.
Therefore, no smoke in real life equals no smoke in the sim.

True but on You Tube there are a lot of videos of what I guess you would call "rebellious"people they purposely make their trucks pump huge billows of black smoke.

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by Grimisto:

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓅𝓉 𝐹𝓊𝓏𝓏𝓎:

Because it is illegal in the US, that's why...

The EPA made it illegal for commercial trucks to 'roll coal', with hefty fines for anyone caught doing it. This is in real life of course, but since real-world trucks are represented in this sim, SCS had to get permission to use them and part of that agreement was that their trucks would not be misrepresented in the sim.
Therefore, no smoke in real life equals no smoke in the sim.

True but on You Tube there are a lot of videos of what I guess you would call "rebellious"people they purposely make their trucks pump huge billows of black smoke.

Well, it's just like I used to tell my daughter.., just because someone else does it, doesn't make it right, or in this case, legal...

Look at it this way, we have some states in the US that have made pot legal, but not every state. If I buy pot in a 'legal state' and then transport it to an 'illegal state', I'm guilty of a crime, even though the pot that I bought was purchased legally.

[Kreech]

Here in Canada you still get those trucks that have black plumes.

[Robinicus]

Originally posted by Kreech:

Here in Canada you still get those trucks that have black plumes.

They are illegal in Canada; we follow the exact same laws laid out by the EPA through Criteria Air Contaminants (CAC) Emission Regulations and have since 2003.

[Kreech]

Right, but legality doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It means it's not supposed to happen. I often see trucks blowing smoke where I live. I haven't particularly paid attention to whether they are primarily local trucks.

[Trucker_71]

Even in Canada, excessive smoke will get you a fine.

[Kreech]

Ok, but is it a fine like jaywalking you can get a fine, i.e. never enforced? That's a serious question because I see smoke coming out of stacks on the regular so I'm a bit surprised people are acting like it doesn't happen.

[☎need4naiim☎]

but i saw smokes coming out of exhausts of those beasts in real life. It was not as evident as burned coal but it was still there to see whenever those beasts wanted high RPM torque.

do all those engines burn love? i supposed it was a joke.