Long drives and resting

[Kormega]

When I'm doing a long drive, inevitably i'll have to stop and rest but when I do I am told the delivery was late. What am I doing wrong?

[AyMazingATS]

Taking a load that delivers too quickly. Before accepting jobs you should look at how much you are able to drive, add 10 hours for the rest period to see if you can make it.

External contracts, even though they are speed limited to 65 mph will be in real time. So if it says 22 hours for example, you will have 22 hours from accepting the job to deliver it.

You do have the option of turning off the fatigue simulation so you can just drive. That can be done in Options >> Gameplay.

[The Pitts]

As long as you can average 62 KPH (38 and a half MPH) en route then the game will always allow you enough time to complete the job because it factors in the player driver's need to sleep. Urgent jobs are tougher but should still be doable. Perhaps a couple of examples, with screenshots, would help explain why you are having problems?

[GHKtruc]

On some urgent jobs it can be a bit iffy. Sometimes it gives me 10 hours extra, sometime it leaves me with barely half an hour to find rest once at destination

[[ BBS ] Bootleg]

Probably due to choosing important/urgent deliveries. If you choose to have fatigue simulation on, then you'll have to choose between resting and risking being late, or keep on driving and battling fatigue for a while to make it on time. Choice is yours really.

[Zylter]

Always sleep before picking up a job, reset your time to give yourself best chance of not missing the delivery deadline.

[MS. Green Label]

press f6 to see how long u have left on the delivery stopping to rest adds 8 hours to your journey u can turn off the fatigue option in the options so u dont need to rest

[The Pitts]

In the vanilla game rest is ten hours not eight.

[Ryu]

Originally posted by Zylter:

Always sleep before picking up a job, reset your time to give yourself best chance of not missing the delivery deadline.

This doesn't matter as the game will adjust your time-to-deliver based on your need for sleep. However, if you hit Detours, have ridiculous traffic levels or drive around too much sight-seeing, you may cause yourself to be late no matter how much time the game is giving you. ;)

[[ BBS ] Bootleg]

As a side note, the way that the delivery window is being calculated in the game is a bit weird. It seems that for local trips you have to pull out all the stops to get there in time, while on medium and long(er) runs you can easily reach the destination with lots of time to spare.

[skyfyre_]

Before picking a job, look closely at the length of travel and the time it takes to get there. To "play it safe" I'll take jobs that takes a full day or two. That way you can give yourself time in case you need to stop at weigh stations. I used to hate driving at night, So I'd rest before taking a job. 4-5am, pick up a load. Turn off detours if you have them on. There's not enough roads to make that detour and still be on time without going too far out of your way. Urgent delivery status is also very important to consider. Weight too. The heavier, the slower you'll be.

[Bill]

Unlike in real life where as you have a dispatcher who tell's you where to go to pick up a load. The game allow's "YOU" to dispatch your self. I don't know how it work's in Europe, but in the U.S. Trucker's are mandated to follow rule's set in place by the Department of Transportation aka DOT.

Since the advent of the "CDL", dispatcher's and their companies are no longer responsible for any DOT rule's, regulation's or law's "YOU" broke. When you are dispatched by them and doing it cause you to either decline, or risk getting caught. The CDL passage put the the majority of what it take's to take a load from here to there on the back's of the driver, not the dispatcher or their company.

That's the issue, do as I say, or else. Knowing the rule's, regulation's and DOT law's. And not following them 100%. When accepting a load from your dispatcher, is all on you. Hence all the complaining and discontent and the main reason to driver turnover being what it is.

[BatWingSix]

Originally posted by Bill:

Unlike in real life where as you have a dispatcher who tell's you where to go to pick up a load. The game allow's "YOU" to dispatch your self. I don't know how it work's in Europe, but in the U.S. Trucker's are mandated to follow rule's set in place by the Department of Transportation aka DOT.

Since the advent of the "CDL", dispatcher's and their companies are no longer responsible for any DOT rule's, regulation's or law's "YOU" broke. When you are dispatched by them and doing it cause you to either decline, or risk getting caught. The CDL passage put the the majority of what it take's to take a load from here to there on the back's of the driver, not the dispatcher or their company.

That's the issue, do as I say, or else. Knowing the rule's, regulation's and DOT law's. And not following them 100%. When accepting a load from your dispatcher, is all on you. Hence all the complaining and discontent and the main reason to driver turnover being what it is.

Dispatchers are really only around if you are a company driver. If you have your own authority, or work for a company like Landstar you do dispatch yourself through brokers and load boards. And yes, companies are in fact held liable for laws the drivers break which is where CSA scores come in. Sounds like you are just grumpy they took away your cheat sheet paper logs and started holding you to an actual standard instead of black balling your way back home dodging scales.

[Lord-Knight Fandragon]

Originally posted by Kormega:

When I'm doing a long drive, inevitably i'll have to stop and rest but when I do I am told the delivery was late. What am I doing wrong?

That is literally what I struggled with in RL lol. IDK why, but doing the math for timing was a fat problem for me. If I had hours, I drove, with out paying attention to the actual delivery time.

The trick is you have to do the math on when is the load required to be delivered. How much time will it take you to get there and then what time will it be if you take the 10 hour sleep break. Sometimes its best to get the load, sleep, even if your character is fully rested, then start driving later at night...yeah, its a whole thing...I was bad at it....

[[ BBS ] Bootleg]

Or alternatively, grab a full rest, then pickup the cargo and drive until rest is needed again. This way you don't lose the resting hours at the start.

[The Pitts]

Originally posted by APEX Bootleg:

the way that the delivery window is being calculated in the game is a bit weird. It seems that for local trips you have to pull out all the stops to get there in time, while on medium and long(er) runs you can easily reach the destination with lots of time to spare.

The way that the delivery window is calculated is the same for all jobs in the Freight or Cargo markets, short or long. See https://steamcommunity.com/app/227300/discussions/0/3365901931429469866/?ctp=3#c3365901931436067106 for more detail than you could possibly need, although it is worth bearing in mind that that post was for ETS2 and the duty cycle and default timezone are different in ATS.

Do you have an example or two (preferably with screenshots) of the sort of thing you mean?