Steel Wings Achievement

[Blaine]

How rare are jobs to the aerospace company in seattle? havent been finding any

[AyMazingATS]

The aerospace company isn't in Seattle. It's in Everett. It is called Darwing, aka Boeing in the real world.

If you are looking for Seattle this could be why you aren't finding anything.

[Ryu]

They aren't as common as, say, the Empty Pallet loads that seem to get passed around like unwanted fruit cake. But they're more common that boats going to marinas. ;)

[Blaine]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

The aerospace company isn't in Seattle. It's in Everett. It is called Darwing, aka Boeing in the real world.

If you are looking for Seattle this could be why you aren't finding anything.

Ah that explains it

[dbwhip42]

Looking for a heading check please.
I am using destination filter looking for darwing to everett. I see a couple fairly consistently but they are always too far away for me to reach before they expire. So I picked a town that I had seen come up a couple of times and started running loads in and out of that town waiting for a Darwing delivery to show up (run a load, check jobs for Darwing if none run load and repeat). I have been doing that for four real world days, probably 4 or five jobs a real world day.
Am I on the right track? Do I just nug through until a load in range comes up? (Now I understand why accomplishment rate is around 2%). I know fast travel exists in the game but I seem to remember it burns game time, i.e. if a job expires in 3 hours and the drive to get to the job is 4 hours, fast travel will burn 4 hours off the clock and job will have expired...I think.

[Ryu]

Another option would be to take it as a Quick Job if you are too far away to get to it before the offer expires. Quick Job list is the same as the Freight Market list, just gives you a random truck to drive instead if you picking up with your own truck. ;)

[dbwhip42]

Thanks. and "AHA!" I am going to spend one more real time day to see if that job shows up again at my target city. If no luck then I will start looking at the quick jobs...

Update: Huzzah! and there was great rejoicing in the land. Turns out my stake out plan finally paid off. On what was probably my next to last regular freight job, Darwing posting showed up for W town. I had to judiciously apply risk management as it applies to speed limits, but I got to the pick up under the wire. And wouldn't you know on an Urgent job, I hit my first detour in days. Got the job done despite the snarl.

Meanwhile, Quick Job has been added to my tool kit for bounty hunting jobs. I dont use it since its not your truck (what would be the point) but I can see where it can cut the Gordian knot.

[dbordbor]

ok,i have done all the markets and half the towns in most state for three days and still can't find a contract to complete steel wings.

[The Pitts]

Pro tip: one of the primary cargoes that Darwing receives is fuel so head to the Gallon Oil refinery in Tacoma, camp out on the job icon and keep spamming External contracts, taking the shortest job on the list and immediately abandoning it, until a diesel or petrol job to Darwing pops up.

[dbordbor]

Your The Pitts but you had great advice,thanks