Is there any advantage to buying a trailer?

[[d20]MintSkittle]

It seems to me that you're just limiting your job options by using a personal trailer, since trailers are limited in what type of cargo they can carry.

[Reese]

Advantages:
You can master the trailer.
You can customise it to fit your beliefs.
It won't ever leave you alone.

Disadvantages:
Limited job options.
Limited pay options.
Not every city may have a load.

Neutral:
Money is arguable.

[GT182]

So true. That was why I asked about combining Cargo and Freight Market jobs. You either use an ownable trailer or one already loaded.

Either way you have to be able to maneuver any trailer.
More total job options
Pay is good or bad
Any city should have jobs. IRL there is no such thing a no jobs. They are out there but you look for them.

[laserpoint490]

I use lowboys I own for heavy hauling and the jobs and pay opportunities are very good. Also, fuel tankers are good, but not quite as lucrative as lowboys. Reefers you own can be used almost anywhere.

Best advice is to buy a trailer and see what jobs you can find, especially in cities where you have a garage.

[jeremyj621]

It's been my experience that regardless of what type of trailer you own, the list of cargo jobs is longer than the list of freight jobs.

[tdkid1]

reese made some good points on owning your own trailer but left out one thing that i would consider neutral. the cargo market opens up allowing you to take a slightly new kind of cargo like jet engines for example. you will need your own trailer to unlock at least two achievements if you want to go after them.

[Quattro]

I mainly use my own flat bed 53 foot trailer out of personal preference because i like matching the colours, I prefer staying with the one trailer length and I like to see what I'm hauling.

I wouldn't say it's the most practical way to earn money in game but I don't really play to earn money I just play because i enjoy driving and if i need money i just cheat it in.

but to answer your question no I don't believe there is much advantage to owning a trailer.

[Spotswood]

Why cheat, your slaves will make you more than enough money.

[Quattro]

I don't really like clogging the truck list with AI driver trucks I just like owning the things I'm actually going to drive.

[tdkid1]

Originally posted by Quattro:

I don't really like clogging the truck list with AI driver trucks I just like owning the things I'm actually going to drive.

well then i would suggest you sell all those trucks as the game is to make money and those trucks just sitting there is costing you money.

[☎need4naiim☎]

Originally posted by Spotswood:

Why cheat, your slaves will make you more than enough money.

"slavery"!!

[Quattro]

Originally posted by tdkid1:

Originally posted by Quattro:

I don't really like clogging the truck list with AI driver trucks I just like owning the things I'm actually going to drive.

well then i would suggest you sell all those trucks as the game is to make money and those trucks just sitting there is costing you money.

it's a game...

[Hypertext Eye]

Originally posted by tdkid1:

Originally posted by Quattro:

I don't really like clogging the truck list with AI driver trucks I just like owning the things I'm actually going to drive.

well then i would suggest you sell all those trucks as the game is to make money and those trucks just sitting there is costing you money.

The game is to drive trucks. Everything else is just window dressing.

[IL PALLINO]

I got that achievement that involves hauling loads from all three of the California wineries with my own food tank. For the most part, owning your own trailers is only something for NPC drivers to utilize in making you money.

It seems useful that ownable lowboy trailers have been announced in both regular and articulated varieties, and anyone with the Heavy Haulin' DLC would most certainly want the latter since it not only means a wider profit margin for the Go Big or Go Home achievement, but also makes chasing the achievement easier.

Another advantage to being able to own lowboy trailers (once they're added to the game) is that it gives NPC drivers licensed to haul valuable cargo more opportunities. (To date, NPC drivers have only one option available to them for valuable cargo, and that's power generators.)

[DrJerryEblay]

Gas tank trailer is the most lucrative for me I get $200,000 jobs with it.. but when I attach any of my other trailers I don't see jobs paying 119$/mile

[Wille Wilse]

I agree with Reese with the addition of that trailers is something to spend money on. Not that it helps that much though you will swim in money anyway.