Truck Station stops working

[Kelzoran]

I was trying to start setting up truck stations and was working with one to test near my main factory to use as a drop off location but the station doesnt do anything. I filled it with fuel to refuel the truck and it doesnt refuel and wont unload the test cargo i had in the trucks inventory, theres a little bar that says unloading if im sitting in the truck but it doesnt do anything.

[Texaport]

I never used trucks before because i figured i would get something better down the road and decided to try them recently (Today) and it loads fine, but unloading at my base the "unloading bar" in the bottom right corner says Unloading at about 30 or 40% and is just perma-stuck that way. I've tried Rebuilding, different test items, restarting the game, and making sure its powered. I noticed the power indicator is showing gray constantly, No Red, Yellow or Green if that helps. I guess in the meantime all that road work i just made is worthless, especially if no on helped you in 8 months.

[Warlord]

Is it in automatic mode? I don't believe you can unload a truck automatically just by driving up to it. (I'm not sure. I have never touched trucks).

[Texaport]

Originally posted by Warlord:

Is it in automatic mode? I don't believe you can unload a truck automatically just by driving up to it. (I'm not sure. I have never touched trucks).

I should say Tractor, but apparently after doing some Research on Youtube ALOT of youtubers say that Vehicles in general are bugged to hell, especially on multiplayer servers.
As for their function; Yes, your supposed to be able to create a path with the recording function and then set it to auto pilot allowing it to just travel in a loop and be loaded and unloaded at locations of truck stops. Now... you can not load and unload at the SAME truck stop, they only function one way at each location, but all of them should be able to load the vehicle with fuel too. It a trade off, you need to fuel and power the stations/trucks, but then you dont have a Belt running the length of the world.

[DrNewcenstein]

Make sure you have power to the station, otherwise the Loading/Unloading bar will show but won't move.
Trace the power line from it to a pole to make sure you're not hooked to a pole that isn't getting power (I've double-tapped poles thinking I connected a wire but actually placed one almost right on top of it).

And yes, as was stated, stations will load/unload automatically and refuel when any vehicle gets within their trigger zone. You have to mind your spacing with multiple vehicles of else one will snatch something out of another truck that it doesn't need to be snatching, or dumping something you don't want to be in another station elsewhere. That's fun. All your shtuff shtops because there's an iron plate in your rotor maker, or in your coal generator.

If you place them on foundations you can drop a fence around the sides to give you a better idea of clearance.

[Texaport]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

Make sure you have power to the station, otherwise the Loading/Unloading bar will show but won't move.
Trace the power line from it to a pole to make sure you're not hooked to a pole that isn't getting power (I've double-tapped poles thinking I connected a wire but actually placed one almost right on top of it).

And yes, as was stated, stations will load/unload automatically and refuel when any vehicle gets within their trigger zone. You have to mind your spacing with multiple vehicles of else one will snatch something out of another truck that it doesn't need to be snatching, or dumping something you don't want to be in another station elsewhere. That's fun. All your shtuff shtops because there's an iron plate in your rotor maker, or in your coal generator.

If you place them on foundations you can drop a fence around the sides to give you a better idea of clearance.

I appreciate the feedback, but when i looked at all the lines they were definitely connected, i even went so far as to connect a bank of biomass burners to test it and make sure it wasnt my mistake. It would load just fine, but the unloading wouldnt work. it was just stuck at somewhere under 50%. Checked to make sure unload was selected, nothing worked. One day i drove my rig to load more Caterium to the truck so i could manually offload it and parked under the supposedly non-functioning truck station and the crane jerked to life. No changes to my system, just lizard doggos happily panting next to it like it was proud.