Repair at owned garages?????

[Reconjack85]

Why cant you repair / mod your trucks in the garages that you own / buy? Or am I missing something?

[j4CE]

You can customise trucks that are parked in your garages. You cannot service though and need to take them to a service centre.

[AyMazingATS]

Has long been requested for this feature to be added.

Could hire a mechanic and pay them weekly too.

[Goose_Few]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Has long been requested for this feature to be added.

Could hire a mechanic and pay them weekly too.

Can we vote on that?

If so you have mine

[Stenleh44]

I had this idea while back….
The ability to do repairs in the garage, but with a twist. It’s take a few extra days to get it done because you have to wait for the parts. Can use the truck until the repair is finished.

However, the advantage…it will be cheaper because the work is being done in your own garage.

[Reconjack85]

Ive only been playing for a week and still figuring things out, quickly, but still seems odd. Spend a few hundred grand on a garage to just park a truck in. You can hire a mechanic to work in your owned garages? How do you do that?

[Reconjack85]

Originally posted by Stenleh44:

I had this idea while back….
The ability to do repairs in the garage, but with a twist. It’s take a few extra days to get it done because you have to wait for the parts. Can use the truck until the repair is finished.

However, the advantage…it will be cheaper because the work is being done in your own garage.

Solid idea, I like that a lot!

[Sandhill]

Originally posted by Reconjack85:

You can hire a mechanic to work in your owned garages? How do you do that?

No
Having your own mechanic could IRL be vastly more expensive than just going to a shop...and there is really no reason that you'd delay a routine maintenance job in your own garage waiting for parts.

[Reconjack85]

Originally posted by Sandhill:

Originally posted by Reconjack85:

You can hire a mechanic to work in your owned garages? How do you do that?

No
Having your own mechanic could IRL be vastly more expensive than just going to a shop...and there is really no reason that you'd delay a routine maintenance job in your own garage waiting for parts.

Makes sense, would still be a nice option I guess once you get five trucks going and rake in the cash. This is a wonderful game, but quite a few things could be tweaked that seem rather common sense to me. I wonder if there's mods that are simple to use? I see the option but can't seem to view any mods.

[cyber_farmer]

I learned this the hard way when the first time I needed to service my truck I intentionally took a lower paying job that got me back to my garage to service my truck (thinking it would be cheaper and more realistic) only to find the garage is virtually useless if you have no hired drivers. This MUST be an added feature in the future.

[MadZec]

While I do more play ETS2 this apply to both game, and there is no logic, while it does sounds as a great option. To be able to repair trucks in your garage, you need to have your own mechanic on pay and also you would had to have parts ready. Which if you do not buy them in advance, as earlier poster said you would had to wait to come. Maybe to get driver to get skill with expirience for basic temporary small repairs but for proper ones to go to repair shop.

Look on it like this, if you do own garage for your car, you still drive car to car mechanic and do not try to repair them yourself. Especially if you have several cars.

[TW]

Has been requested ever sense PTTM came out. Still can not.................

[rhuffp]

If you only run one brand/model truck you would normally have most common parts on hand, especially for routine maintenance. The mechanic/s would come as part of the garage and costs would be factored in as part of the garage. Not a hard thing to program. If you run different brands/models, that would increase the costs. Again, not that hard to program. You already pay for maintenance on trucks that return without a load.

[MadZec]

How many truck companies you know (especially minor ones) that are not sponsored by that one brand to keep stock of parts of different truck brands. Not to mention if you have more then 3-4 trucks, will you keep them all same brand? I know I got different brand on third truck.

[Alabama]

I one worked for a company that ran four trucks.
The guy who ran it had a mechanic, just to do stuff like
wiper blades, make sure that the bottle was full, fuel the trucks
basic stuff like that. So when got back from a run, we did not have to do that.
He also washed the trucks down, we had to keep our own cbas clean inside,

[MirkoC407]

Yeah. While not working in trucking, my employer was until recently rented into office space from a trucking company. Fair to say, they had a fleet of 10 or so, i.e. bigger than what the game allows. The had a mechanic for the "small stuff" not brand related. Change worn tires, brake pads and discs, oil and other liquids.
For sure, if it was bigger stuff, the trucks would either go to the shop or the shop came to them with a van, using the trucking company repair shop while bringing spare parts and special tools in the van. They ran two brands, three in transition (Scania and Iveco when I started there, Scania and MAN when my company moved out).