Truck Stacks?

[Da1andonlyaram]

Is there any way, the team is willing to add smoke to all truck stacks or exhaust? Just to add some realism to the trucks?

[Joe__Walker]

No, the reason modern Trucks don't smoke they use addblue to prevent smoke, the other reason is a licence theme

[Da1andonlyaram]

Thank you Joe.

At least i did get an answer, a good one at that. This is a great game!
One last question if i may will there be tornadoes in Taxes or other states? or am I just asking for to much?

[TwinShadow]

No tornadoes, and honestly, I hope they keep it that way because I don't want to deal with them in this game. It's not really for that kind of thing or other extreme weather events. Snow, sure, I can see that coming in a future update at some point; though that isn't for a long while because that is a ton of assets they have to update for snow textures and stuff. Not to mention the different driving physics required.

[Da1andonlyaram]

Understood. I would only hope for at least some snow or ice to use some chains but I understand completely. Thank you guys for some answers this community is great!.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Joe__Walker:

No, the reason modern Trucks don't smoke they use addblue to prevent smoke, the other reason is a licence theme

Sorry for nerding here but:
AdBlue is there to reduce the NOx emissions that are pretty common with diesel engines.
(For the reaction the Urea in the AdBlue is reacting with the NOx to form CO₂, N₂ and H₂O.)
The smoke is prevented with the filters that are mandatory for diesel vehicles AFAIK (certainly mandatory for trucks).
/nerd

[MirkoC407]

The smaller the diesel engine the smaller the particles and the smaller the particles the more dangerous for living organisms. So filters came first for cars (mid 90es I think), then for trucks and buses (same engines, filters not so much after cars), recently for locomotives and river ships (basically using the same engines again, "recently" is also already the past decade). Time to get ready, ocean vessels. Despite throwing biquettes off the chimney they will be next and last,

[Etny2k]

smoke stacks... I havent said that since I was young.

[Psychobleeds]

Yeah I never see any trucks hardly with exhaust smoke unless they are burning their fuel wrong.

[Ornery]

At truck pulls and such, they'll use trucks with 2000+ HP engines, rolling smoke like mad, but those engines are not built or tuned with economy, long haulin' or longevity in mind.

[MirkoC407]

A diesel engine gets more power simply from burning more fuel. Black smoke means running too rich. These dragster-trucks and pull-tractors work by putting superchargers onto the engine shoveling as much air into the engine as the intake allows (the bottleneck in the system) then they inject to the safe side, i.e. more fuel than the engine can burn. The result is the maximum possible power output from a diesel engine, and that's all they need for that kind of races.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Ornery:

At truck pulls and such, they'll use trucks with 2000+ HP engines, rolling smoke like mad, but those engines are not built or tuned with economy, long haulin' or longevity in mind.

And none of these are allowed to drive on the road.

[Ornery]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

And none of these are allowed to drive on the road.

Exactly my point

[_KC76_]

Im'a nerd out too.

Black smoke is un-burnt fuel .. The reason why you see Pulling trucks or pulling Tractors "Rolling Coal" is because they are intentionally over-fueled to help keep the Pistons from melting, due the high Turbo pressures, which in-turn create extreme cylinder temperatures. Un-burnt fuel has a cooling effect on the Pistons, and to a lessor extent, the cylinder walls.

[TW]

If a truck is blowing black smoke then it is running to rich of a fuel and air combination. And all that black smoke goes into the reefer engine and do nothing but burn the reefer engine up. But trucks do need stacks to move the used up air away from that engine. Stack behind the cab defeats this per-pus. Side cab stacks blow the burnt air away from the truck. But black rolling smoke does nothing but burn the engine up. Besides wasting fuel and sends the smog control people into a comma....

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by KingConrail:

Im'a nerd out too.

Black smoke is un-burnt fuel .. The reason why you see Pulling trucks or pulling Tractors "Rolling Coal" is because they are intentionally over-fueled to help keep the Pistons from melting, due the high Turbo pressures, which in-turn create extreme cylinder temperatures. Un-burnt fuel has a cooling effect on the Pistons, and to a lessor extent, the cylinder walls.

Small addendum here:
The smoke is not the unburnt fuel but the partially burnt fuel that turned into elemental Carbon due to high temperatures and a lack of Oxygen. Since Carbon is solid you will see it as the classic black smoke. The unburnt fuel (and I mean unburnt aka not reacted) is coming out of the exhaust (maybe gets converted by the catalyst a bit if that thing is still installed). You won't see it but the Carbon is enough of an evidence to point to unburnt fuel being there.