Asphalt carrying trucks get stuck on road building, message : Traffic jam

[starman01]

Hi,

since it's now a quite common problem i never encountered before the last patch I thought I mention it.

I play in realistic mode. When paving roads, it now happens sometimes that the truck carrying the asphalt bugs out and doesn't move anymore, and I get the message Traffic jam.
From my observation, this always happens with a road paver already on the construction, but the paver is never near the truck ( so not like when the unloading/building animation happens).

Truck must be manually sent back to the construction office to fix it. Hard to say how often this happens, maybe once per hour, depending on the amount of ongoing road building.

[Vimes]

Do you mean the stable branch build or the newly release patch...

0.9.0.12 - in the test build section.

That attempts to address such issues. Since using that patch I have not experienced any such occurrences.

[starman01]

I'm using the vanilla version released on Steam, 0.9.0.11 according to menu screen. Sometimes the paver stand close to the truck, and the truck usually at the beginning of the street construction site.

One thing I might add, is that due to advanced time I'm now using newer dumper truck version, so if it's not a script problem, it might be related to the trucks, since i never encountered it with the old trucks that I was using before the last patch. I'm using now Rmn 19-215DFK and T815 trucks )vanilla, no modded vehicles in my game, though plenty of other mods).

Is the test build safe enough for my save game ? I could then switch and test it out again.

[Vimes]

There have been no anomalies noted with the 12 test build. Worth adding to try it out.
It may probably mean existing builds might not be changed?

[starman01]

I give it a try, and when i start building the next industry complex with lots of roads i report back.

[Vimes]

Originally posted by starman01:

I give it a try, and when i start building the next industry complex with lots of roads i report back.

If you experience the problem, understanding that there are times that it can take a long time before small sections of roads finalise, and it is related to build 12 then you are best reporting that within the 0.9.0.12 thread, in the new test build forum section where it is listed.

Thanks

[starman01]

I know it can take long some times. But what I am referring to is a system message from the advisor telling me about a traffic jam. And when I go look (with the eye symbol), it is pointing me to the truck. The paver is there, sometimes close, sometimes farther out when the road construction site is bigger, and the required amount of asphalt is on the truck that is shown as "target" for the traffic jam. So technically they should work.

Only way to clear is to click the "return to office" buttonin the truck menu 2x times in a row, 1 click doesn't fix, it just deletes the construction site as goal, but the truck remains stuck even after that. So the second click is required to teleport him back to the office.

Please also note the amount of game time I have collected, all within the last 8 weeks (yeah, I don't have a life, don't ask :) )... Nearly 300 hours, and I haven't encounted this issue before the latest patch.

I'm now switching to test build and construct the next piece of industry.

[starman01]

I think the problem is gone now in the test branch.... Built quite a few roads, short and long ones, and the asphalt trucks were line up nicely for the work. No 100% gurantee, but i think this problem is gone. If I encounter it again, i drop a note.

[thejohobro]

I am encountering this at the moment. Steam Version v123, a few workshop building assets but no vehicle assets.

Roads/pedestrian paths will get to ~80-90% completion, then will get stuck. An asphalt truck will be working with a paver, containing the amount of asphalt needed to complete the road, but it'll just be stopped, and I get notifications saying it is stuck in a traffic jam. I have to send the asphalt truck back to depot to resolve it and it comes back out to finish the road just fine.

It doesn't happen every time, but enough that any building or infrastructure I place with more than 3 or 4 roads/paths, it is almost guaranteed to happen.

[Blackwaterpark]

I know how this problem happens, and it is easily repeatable (I like building a lot of asphalt roads at once).

The problem occurs when there are workers and an asphalt truck on a road section when a paver gets delivered. The truck stops work in the middle of the road while the paver is unloaded, and then that truck is left in limbo. If there are more trucks in the queue on that road section, the paver will continue work using one of them.

That road section will never get built until the truck is manually sent back, as well.