Should I upgrade hired driver's trucks?

[Sekkho Asmadi]

In the early days of the game, the answer was always no. Upgrading didn't make a difference. But lately I've seen posts floating around that suggest in ETS2, upgrading their trucks does make a difference, and that at some point, it was added into ATS as well. Anyone here care to post their experiences?

[Capt Fuzzy]

Based on some of my rather limited observations, it does make a slight difference, but not as much of a difference as it does when you upgrade your own truck.

[Sandhill]

It is I think fair to say that you would never regain the money invested...much better to put it into more garages and drivers.

[jasonbarron]

Too bad there isn't a compelling reason to provide drivers with top of the line trucks and trailers. This game is badly in need of a money sink.

[Asigion]

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Too bad there isn't a compelling reason to provide drivers with top of the line trucks and trailers. This game is badly in need of a money sink.

I assume you mean by a money sink that you want to spend your money. If that is correct then upgrading driver's trucks is a perfect way of doing that.

[Verfallen]

I stil do it because day it start to make a difference or that they actually appear in the world I will not have to redo them all

[jasonbarron]

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Too bad there isn't a compelling reason to provide drivers with top of the line trucks and trailers. This game is badly in need of a money sink.

I assume you mean by a money sink that you want to spend your money. If that is correct then upgrading driver's trucks is a perfect way of doing that.

Right, but what's the point? You don't get to see them and they arguably don't even lead to greater earnings.

[Asigion]

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

I assume you mean by a money sink that you want to spend your money. If that is correct then upgrading driver's trucks is a perfect way of doing that.

Right, but what's the point? You don't get to see them and they arguably don't even lead to greater earnings.

It doesn't really matter because eventually you have so much money and nothing to spend it on so you may as well upgrade their trucks. It is a personal choice but when I had drivers I just rewarded them from time to time just like you would reward people who give you good service just with the tiny difference being that they are computer code but then again so are the parts I give them for their trucks and the money I spent. Not as though you are going to miss the money considering in ETS2 I had over 200 drivers and over 130,000,000 Euros.

I didn't have drivers in ATS for a long time because of the money accumulation but I have started hiring a couple and I don't reward them because it might give higher profits. I reward them because I just feel like being kind and also getting rid of some money in the process. :)

[jasonbarron]

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Right, but what's the point? You don't get to see them and they arguably don't even lead to greater earnings.

It doesn't really matter because eventually you have so much money and nothing to spend it on so you may as well upgrade their trucks. It is a personal choice but when I had drivers I just rewarded them from time to time just like you would reward people who give you good service just with the tiny difference being that they are computer code but then again so are the parts I give them for their trucks and the money I spent. Not as though you are going to miss the money considering in ETS2 I had over 200 drivers and over 130,000,000 Euros.

I didn't have drivers in ATS for a long time because of the money accumulation but I have started hiring a couple and I don't reward them because it might give higher profits. I reward them because I just feel like being kind and also getting rid of some money in the process. :)

Fair enough. I'll probably take a leaf out of your book:)

[Capt. Carrot]

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

I assume you mean by a money sink that you want to spend your money. If that is correct then upgrading driver's trucks is a perfect way of doing that.

Right, but what's the point? You don't get to see them and they arguably don't even lead to greater earnings.

The point is that, at some point in your game you will start to make more money than you could ever spend. On my ETS2 profile i have over £70,000,000. i could probably max out the number of drivers that i am allowed to have AND give them all fully upgraded trucks AND put at least 5 trailers in the garages for them to use and still have at least £30,000,000 in change.

Giving the drivers full loaded trucks from day one actually delays the point at which you start to make more money than you can ever spend.

[Maine's Own]

Originally posted by jasonbarron:

Right, but what's the point? You don't get to see them and they arguably don't even lead to greater earnings.

The point for me is that this way, I "store" my favorite trucks and configs I love to drive myself so they earn money instead of taking up a garage slot and doing nothing.

[Laqueesha]

I upgraded all my hired drivers trucks, just because I had so much money and nothing to spend it on.

[Atomicdogg1]

All my trucks are custom top of the line fully loaded even my drivers trucks because when I want to drive a different truck I can swap with one of my drivers and still be pimped out

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

Might make sense if the game has a system to tell drivers what they will haul based on truck and config. Heavier, more powerful trucks of course being better at doing larger loads. Don't have a truck with the thresshold met? No haul. Driver comes back empty handed.

Would also be interesting to have some kind of morale measure on drivers. You have to keep your drivers happy. Only have Day Cabs? Congratulations! Every trip a driver takes over 600 miles annoys them because now they HAVE to hunt down a motel/hotel when they stop. Lose too much morale, and the driver quits, taking their EXP earned with them.

Invoke a morale system like that on trucks where the features you look for are also features the driver looks for. More fuel capacity, sleeper cabs, better behavior stats. The more leveled up a driver becomes, the more they want a better truck. BAM! You actually have to manage your drivers.

We'll never see a maintenance system (because none of the licensed truck companies are going to be happy if you start assigning wear and tear rate values to their vehicles, they'll grumble when 'company X has better reliability than company Y' in the game, even if it is realistic and true). Though a maintenance system would be nice to add a money sink into. Maybe just get an 'all equal across the board' system of 'tires', 'engine', 'transmission', 'other' that needs to be kept in good shape with regular (10k miles) maintenance. Or maybe just have the various damage values tick up over time... Unless it already does that. I'm running the 'auto-repair' truck mod at the moment. So I don't know if deterioration happens. I just think of it as my truck having a tank of nanomachines (son!) doing repairs.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Sekkho Asmadi:

In the early days of the game, the answer was always no. Upgrading didn't make a difference. But lately I've seen posts floating around that suggest in ETS2, upgrading their trucks does make a difference, and that at some point, it was added into ATS as well. Anyone here care to post their experiences?

Yes, they make much more money, particularly at higher level driving high end trucks.

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by Jack:

Yes, they make much more money, particularly at higher level driving high end trucks.

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