Money troubles

[Pho3nix]

Heya, just a quick question, is anyone else struggling with making money in this game? I've got quite a few hours under my belt but I'm still around $400k in debt with only $130k of money to spare for upgrades etc.

How do you guys do it? I have one driver with a decent truck working for me, but since he's not driving offline It's not helping much - the dude has made maybe 20% of what I have so far. Why do your employees make so little dough compared to you? that kinda sucks.

Recently I've turned off traffic violations because I kept losing 2-3 thousand bucks every run for over-speeding and running red lights when driving drunk. It's helping a little bit, but I thought I'd have so much more to spend by this point, I really wanna hire another driver and buy a new truck too but can't.

[Rookie-31st]

It is always slow at the beginning. Concentrate on buying more trucks and hiring more drivers, leave upgrades for later.

There are few "cheats" which might help. If you have at least few hired drivers already, you can disable fatigue simulation and leave your game running overnight while parked on highway shoulder (fastest time). Then, even with disabled fatigue you can still rest. So, rest after every job, this will make game time run faster and bring $ from hired drivers sooner

[~IsR~Dave2]

you need to upgrade your garage, to max. buy 3 trucks total + yours and 3 drivers. To do this take out loans from the bank. With longest terms to keep payments loe buy your drivers the chepest trucks, as it doesn't matter what they drive, It's just a logrithem, depending on your hors. Driving the drivers will make enough for the loan payments, after a while you will have enough to buy more garages more drivers etc.

[~IsR~Dave2]

plus when you have more garages quick travel adds more $$$$$

[Max Colby]

Yeah, stop upgrading your drivers' trucks, it doesn't make a difference. Though, some argue, I've never noticed any.

[Nimir-Raj]

Not taking loans before you can afford the repayments is a good start. ;)

Originally posted by (CAL) Dave Bevan:

plus when you have more garages quick travel adds more $$$$$

Unless you have loans. Then it can take money. All quick travelling does is move you from A to B and move time forward. It's no different to sleeping. If your drivers earnings are not covering your debts, quick travel is only going to make things worse.

Originally posted by Pho3nix:

the dude has made maybe 20% of what I have so far. Why do your employees make so little dough compared to you? that kinda sucks.

They make roughly the same amount as you for the same jobs at the appropriate skill level. But as the boss you have to pay them wages, cover the cost of damage to their vehicles and pay for their fuel.

So they may be taking a job that is worth £5000 but you're only seeing £2500 after deductions. Hiring drivers too soon can be problematic because if they return empty, you have to cover costs still, but they made no money so it's all outgoings and nothing to cover it.

[J4MESOX4D]

I have $20,000,000 in the bank and if there was a way to lend you some; I'd do it;-)

Early on can be a bit of a grind but the only way to make good money is by earning more than any daily outgoings in regards to loads or expenses for fines. Only rest when it is ultimately necessary and try to cram in as many jobs as possible which have a good price per mile. Try not to invest too much early on in truck upgrades or waste money carelessly.

[Rookie-31st]

Like IRL, the hardest part is to earn you first $ million, by driving and driving and driving, then money make money (buy garages and trucks, and hire drivers who bring you income)

[Nimir-Raj]

And boy do you. On my original ETS2 Profile once I reached 20 drivers, I went from a few million to a couple of billion before I even realised it. These days I just drive and ignore the money.

[Eboreus]

Spend your money for new drivers in the beginning. As soon as they start to add substancial sums of money you'll be able to upgade your own truck so much faster.

[wolfedg]

Originally posted by Pho3nix:

Heya, just a quick question, is anyone else struggling with making money in this game? ...

Recently I've turned off traffic violations because I kept losing 2-3 thousand bucks every run for over-speeding and running red lights when driving drunk . It's helping a little bit, but I thought I'd have so much more to spend by this point, I really wanna hire another driver and buy a new truck too but can't.

I think I've identified the problem. In real life you wouldnt be driving a truck at all after all those lol.