Refuelling Vehicles out of fuel

[nevryn]

Is there an actual mechanism for refueling vehicles that have run out of fuel? Doesn''t appear to be .. should be a feature of the Repair Depot,, and where are the 'recovery vehicles'?

[Delle(DK)]

if a vehicle run out of fuel they will typical just continue at reduced speed until it can refuel.
In cases a vehicle is blocking everything then sell it.
But it would be nice with a teleport vehicle to home building in such a case.
I sometimes spot such vehicles driving from a-b without fuel since they ran out.
it is rare they stop and wont go anywhere, but it did happen on a very long road before my fuel stations had been filled.

[Sirius Czech]

Vehicles that run out of fuel start looking from the position of their next road node to a driving distance of 2 km(!) and will be looking for a way to refuel in such range. If they find, they will start heading that way. If not, they will continue driving till they run out of fuel completely. If nothing found, they will wait eternally till any refueling space will appear in 2000m distance from their position and then they will drive there.

Vehicles without any fuel can also be send to any depot/distribution office and it will drive there siphoning fuel out of thin air and will go refueling from there.

If vehicle runs out of fuel, it refuels a 130% next time (as -30% is a "fine" for running out of fuel mid route).

But as long as you have a depot, vehicle will never get stuck mid-route without any solution - simply send it to any depot in it´s way and cancel such trip once it is in range of a refueling station

[MrKrabs]

I don't like teleporting functions whatsoever. I personally come along with the system as it is for now. It's on me to create a network for refueling. If I fail and a vehicle runs dry I get a notification and I can get it to a depot where it will refuel.
Having it towed would be a nice addition.

[Beast of War]

Call them to a road depot. They will run forever with an empty tank lol.

For trains that is call them to a train depot.

To get them out of there, there should be a powered gas station or diesel depot very near. Or in case of trucks also a non powered free gas station.

When i order US trucks in my place in the map early on they need to come to me for 3/4 of the map via country roads and many towns and villages. Especially when caught by winter conditions they will run out of fuel. But by finding them and recalling them to my road depot they will continue untill they arrive with an empty tank.

Unrealistic, but that is game reality.

[Sirius Czech]

Originally posted by Beast of War:

When i order US trucks in my place in the map early on they need to come to me for 3/4 of the map via country roads and many towns and villages. Especially when caught by winter conditions they will run out of fuel. But by finding them and recalling them to my road depot they will continue untill they arrive with an empty tank.

Unrealistic, but that is game reality.

If you cut all crossroads and remove all nods, they can easily run back and forth the whole map while importing steel, as the distance to nearest gas station is computed from "nearest node forward in their path". So if you are making 12km long node-less dirt road, they will run out of fuel, but will continue as long as the first node is
a) near (2km) your city gas station
b) near a gas station at foreign customs (basicall a free depot with cistern and a free gas station will do).

[MG83]

Currently no recovery for them. But you can select the vehicle and send it to a depot.

[MG83]

Would be good thou if repair deports do that. however their max range is 3k and fuel search range of vehicle is more than that. So even it had such ability due to its max 3k range it would not work.

[FirestormMk3]

Tow trucks in general would be nice since they could also be used if a vehicle gets lost in the bureaucracy or fails to report in and gets too high a maintenance need. Especially if they aren't near their home or repair station it would be nice to be able to tell them to just pull over and wait for a tow truck instead of breaking down ever 100 meters.