load meat to refrigerated truck,, how ?

[Kongsted_DK]

Hi I have built meat production, and what belongs to it .. I have also built a cold store ... But how do I transport the meat from there to my shops .. I have built a distribution office. I bought a refrigerated truck. But I can not get it to leave the distribution office ...
Can any of you tell me how to run it?

[dnguyen528]

Can you post a screenshot of your meat production area, your shops and your DO settings? Did you purchase the refrigerated truck at the DO or a road depot.

On a separate note, you'll generally set the cold storage to load (and a percentage; I usually set zero at producers) and then unload at the store. However, depending on the distance, this generally doesn't work great. Once the distance reaches a certain length, this will result in the truck arriving AFTER the shop's internal stores are depleted resulting in shortages. There usually isn't a DO only solution around this because if you set the unload percentage higher, this results in the trucks being dispatched earlier but with partial loads.

To get around this, you'll either need to build a road depots at each of the end locations and set a regular non-DO line. Then, you can have trucks per each good idle at the store and act as additional storage while other trucks are onroute. This gets unwieldy when there are multiple stores in a small area (say one store per microrayon in a large city). OR, you can have a larger regional storage, right outside of the city combined with a DO. This lets you combine non-DO routes for the longer inter-city routes using the road depot as additional storage, and keeps the DO intra-city route short enough that you don't run into the above problem.

[barry.zandstra]

Are you perhaps auto buying meat at the shop, so that the DO does not get triggered, since the shop has plenty of meat left?

[bajecznie nawdychany]

I am doing it like this:
Next to every city I am having small cold storage from mods, it is connected to road cargo station via factory connection. There are two or three refrigerators waiting in line to unload (but it is full) in the cold storage. Then there is another refrigerator that is loading meat from road cargo station and unloading it in small shopping centre. No DO's were utilized as all orders were done manually.

[Deco Boladasso]

For every building storing something, you must build another to load stuff if you wanna transport it. So, if you have a farm connected via conveyor to the slaughterhouse and the slaughterhouse connected to a cold storage, you then need to build a truck container loading facility in order to load your cold containers (fully loaded with meat) into the trucks. Also, you gonna need a truck container unloading facility linked to the supermaket/stores to unload the containers. That should solve your problem.

[dnguyen528]

Originally posted by Deco Boladasso:

For every building storing something, you must build another to load stuff if you wanna transport it. So, if you have a farm connected via conveyor to the slaughterhouse and the slaughterhouse connected to a cold storage, you then need to build a truck container loading facility in order to load your cold containers (fully loaded with meat) into the trucks. Also, you gonna need a truck container unloading facility linked to the supermaket/stores to unload the containers. That should solve your problem.

You don't actually ever need a container loading/unloading facility. All of the goods that can be loaded into a container can be transported "loose". So long as the routes are set up correctly, and there aren't an issues with goods not being able to be transferred across factory connections, meat can move either with regular routes (like what bajecznie describes) or DOs.

[barry.zandstra]

Originally posted by dnguyen528:

You don't actually ever need a container loading/unloading facility. All of the goods that can be loaded into a container can be transported "loose". So long as the routes are set up correctly, and there aren't an issues with goods not being able to be transferred across factory connections, meat can move either with regular routes (like what bajecznie describes) or DOs.

Hear, hear.

In fact, you can't even put meat into a container in vanilla. Meat can only sit in a refrigerated storage, shop, or slaughterhouse. It can only be transported in a refrigerated truck or rail car.

[Kongsted_DK]

It was because I had forgotten to stop the import of food from outside ... So it was a simple mistake 40: D

Thank you for your efforts to help me